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|ULSTER i OEL.R.R. --.OTHER RAILROADS = COUNTRY ROADS. 



THIS book is issued by the Passenger Department of Tlie 
Ulster* Delaware Railroad Comi)any. It is devoted to de- 
scriptive matter pertaining- to the Ciitskill Mountains ; their 
structure, history and development as a Siunmer Resort ; the 
sanitary advantages of summer life in.the dry air of high moun- 
tain regions; the absolute need of rest and vacation for the busy 
workers in the city and town; the scenic beauties and wildwood 
charms so lavishly spread for the delectation of every visitor. It 
also contains much general information regarding the leading 
points of interest throughout the range; what and where they 
are, how to reach them and what to look for. In fact, it is an 
accurate guide book to the regions reached by this mountain 
railway system. 



COPYKKiTHED l^i94 BY 
I. SIMS, GENERAL PASSENGER A(iENT, 
THE ULSTER & DELAWARE R. R. 
RE-ISSUED 190(;. 



With the exception of the points reached by the railroads, 
the altitudes given in this book are in accordance with Prof. 
Guyot, who was the first to make accurate measurements of the 
Catskills a few years ago. 



PRESS OF 

KINGSTON FREEMAN, 

RONDOUT, N. Y. 




THIS BOOK DESCRIPTIVE 
OF THE HAUNTSOF 

Rip Van Winkle, AND 

HOWTO REACH THEM. 




THE MOST PICTURtSQur 

ALL poms IN THIS (jmr 

miTHANDPLEASmHESOUT 
APE REACHED BY 

Ulster & 
Delaware 
Railroad 

L.COYKENDALL, 

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= Qen '/Pdsssn^erA^en t 

1906 

QeneralOffices, 

Kingston. 

(Rondout PO.) 

N.Y. 



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CONTENTS. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

1'a<;f, 

A Bit of Scenery at Kingston 

Point Park 40 

Along- the Banks of the 

Esopus 34 

A Moonliglit Niglit on Kaa- 

terskill Lake 90 

Another piece of New State 

Road east of Shandaken . . . 6S 

A Picturesque spot and a 

Good Trout Stream 72 

A Piece of the New State 

Road near Big Indian 56 

A Rustic Scene Between 
Grand Gorge and Soutla 
Gilboa 30 

A Rustic Scene near Grand 

Gorgfe 70 

As the Track runs througli 

the Stony Clove S4 

As the Train winds around 

the Great Horse Shoe 5S 

A Turn in the Road 44 

A View of the Grand Hotel. . . .60 

A View of Phoenicia 28 

A View of Stamford Village. . .71 

Bishop's Falls 46 

Boulder Rock near Kaa- 

terskill 18 

Cooperstown 102 

Devasego Falls 4 S 

Grand View near Phoenicia ... 52 

In the Woodland Valley 32 

In the Woods near Grand 

Gorge 24 

Looking Along the Rail on 

the Mountain Top 42 

Looking Down Over 2,000 
Feet from Sphynx Rock 
near Catskill Mountain 
House 106 

Looking- Down 2,000 Feet 
from tlie Ledge at Cats- 
kill Mountain House 22 

liOoking West from Big In- 
dian 36 

Lockwood's Cut 80 

, Logg-ia and Porte Cochere, 

<_ Grand Hotel 62 

'one of the Beautifully 
Shaded Streets, Stam- 
ford, N. Y 76 

One of the drives in Santa 

Cruz Park 96 

One of the Picturesque 

Drives near Gilboa 12 

One of the pretty drive.s 

near Grand Hotel 50 

On the Grounds of a Summer 

Home near Shokan 10 

On the Kaaterskill Creek 104 

Red Falls 82 



Some of the Mountain Peaks 

near Chichester 88 

Sunset Rock 86 

The Arch Bridg-e and Trout 

Stream 78 

The Beautiful Falls at Haines 

Corners 108 

The Catskill Mountain Lim- 
ited Trains passing- at 
Phoenicia 16 

The Falls near Brown's 

Station 8 

The Famous Old Catskill 

Mountain House 100 

The Foliage is beautiful in 
the months of May and 
June 54 

The Lake at Stamford, N. Y. . . .26 

The Large Kaaterskill Hotel.. 98 

The Mt. Pleasant Valley 110 

The Railroad on the Side of 
Pine Hill Mountain -with 
Pine Hill Village in the 
Distance 64 

The Road from the Laurel 
House through the Park 
to Hotel Kaaterskill 92 

The Stony Clove as you see 

it from a distance 14 

The Valley as you see it 

near Chichester 38 

The Village of Griffin's 

Corners 66 

The Village of Prattsville 20 

Tyrolese Outlook 94 

LIST OF HOTELS AND 

BOARDING HOUSES LOCATED 

AT 

Arkville 176-177 

Big Indian 173 

Bloomville 182-183 

Boiceville 171 

Brown's Station 169 

Brodhead's Bridge 169-170 

Cliichester 185 

Davenport Center 183-184 

East Meredith 183 

Edgewood 18.') 

Fleischmanns 174-175-176 

Grand Gorge 178-179-180 

Grand Hotel Station 174 

Haines Corners 191 

Halcottvillo 177 

Hobart 182 

Hunter 185-186-187-188-189 

Kaaterskill 191 

Kaaterskill Junction 185 

Kelly's Corners 177 



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OCT 20 Y9t5 



CONTENTS (Continued). 



r.IST OF HOTEF.S, ETC. (COXTIXl'ED) . 

PA(iE 

Koi-trig-ht Station 1S3 

Lanesville 1S3 

Laurel House Station 101 

Mt. Pleasant 171 

Olive Branch 1G9 

Oneonta 1S4 

Phoenicia 172 

Pine Hill 173-171 

Roxbury 17S 

Shandaken 172-173 

Shokan 170-171 

South Gilboa ISO 

South Kortright 1S2 

Stamford ISO-lSl 

Tannersville 189-190-191 

West Davenport IS I 

West Hurley lfiS-169 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Announcement Ill 

Distance Table lOr. 

Elevations IOj 

Excursion Rates from New 

York 109 

One Way Rates from New 

York 109 

Rail and Steamer Connec- 
tions 10 i 

Rates of Fare from Junc- 
tion Points 107 

Stage Connections 101 

Stations 100 

Trout Fishing- 103 

SPECIAL PAGES. 

American House 151 

Atchinson House 131 

Bellevue House 140 

Breezy Hill House 161 

Campbell House 1.51 

Camp Wake Robin 120 

Catskill Mountain House 167 

Central House 143 

Churchill Hall 12S 

Devasego Inn 15G-157 

Far View House 127 

Fenmore House 146 

Gem of the Catskills 145 

Gilboa Hotel 160 

Glen Park House 144 

High View House 145 

Hotel Hallenbeck 147 



PAGE 

Hotel Martin 149 

Hotel Waverly 150 

Hubbell Manor 136 

Kendall Place 130 

Laurel House 164 

Lox-Hurst 142 

Mansion House 152 

Maplehurst House 143 

Maple Lane House 137 

Maple Rest Cottage ..136 

Mountain Rest House 142 

Mountain Side Cottage 147 

New South Kortright Inn.... 138 

O'Brien House 161 

Offer's Pleasant View House.. 152 
Phoenicia, 112-113-114-115 116-117 

Pleasant Home Cottage 159 

Roxmor 120 

Safford. Dr. J. E 135 

Sanford Lodge 138 

Simpson House 119 

Simpson Terrace 137 

Stamford 122-123-124-125-126 

Sunn\side House 140 

The Cornish House 15 '3 

The Fairmont 148 

The Globe Hotel 119 

The Graham House 15S 

The Grand Hotel 166 

The Haines' Falls House 141 

The Ingleside 135 

The Jefferson 121 

The Kenwood 139 

The Lafayette 121 

The Madison 132 

The New Grant House 134 

The O'Hara House 162 

The Pines 163 

The Rexmere 129 

The Rip Van Winkle House.. 154 

The Waldorf 165 

The W^atson 155 

The Westholm 133 

Twin Mountain House 149 

Unique Cottage 144 

Upland Farm House 140 

Vining's Farm House 162 

Washington Inn 118 

Wawanda Inn 155 

Woodard House 150 

Woodland Valley 116-117 



A COMPI-KTE M VP OF THE ULSTER & DELAWARE RAILROAD, 
ITS COXXECTIOX.*;. VXD THE CATSKIL1> 3IOUNTAIXS, IS ITS THE 
KOOK NEXT TO EHOXT COVER. 






THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS AND THE ULSTER AND DELA- 
WARE SYSTEM— SUMMER REST AND WHERE TO FIND 
IT-SCENIC BEAUTY AND SANITARY ADVANTAGES— 
THE ONLY ALL-RAIL. STANDARD GAUGE ROUTE AND 
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"It seems to me I'd like to go 
Where bells don't ring-, nor whistles blow, 
Nor clocks don't strike, nor gongs don't sound, 
And I'd have stillness all around. 

Not real still stillness, but just the trees' 
Low whisperings or the hum of bees. 
Or brooks faint babbling over stones 
In strangely, softly tangled tones. 

Or maybe a cricket or katydid, 
Or the songs of birds in the hedges hid, 
Or just some such sweet sound as these, 
To fill a tired heart with ease. 

Sometimes it seems to me I must 
Just quit the city's din and dust 
And get out where the sky is blue. 
And, say, now, how does it seem to you?" 



<r>ii.ji •«•-•-. There is a science of summer rest, and the sooner 
SUMMER , ■ r ^ ■ , J , , , , , , 

this fact is reahzed and reckoned with the better 
REST 

• ■ • it will be for all those who live in the temperate 

zones. In the United States the vacation habit has now grown 
chronic and confirmed among all classes. And yet it is surpris- 
ing that so few of these intelligent American millions fully 
comprehend the real lesson of the doctrine of rest. Men and 
women in every walk of life, rich and poor alike, hustle along 
day after day through the busy months of each vear between 
store or office and the home or club, in quest of the elusive 
dollar and the happiness and pleasure it mav bring. Few ever 
stop to estimate the pace or measure the speed of their activi- 
ties. It is a restless energy that pervades this land of ours and 
we rarely spare the time to look into the faces of our neighbors 
at home or abroad, or study their methods of life. The frail 
arteries of our existence are continualiv distended bv the pres- 




THE FALLS NEAR BROWN'S STATION. 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 9 

sure of individual effort toward the supremacy and conquest 
over jostling rivals on every side. It is an ambitious age in 
which we live. But rather than seek to abate the noble ener- 
gies and activities that so proudly characterize this epoch, shall 
we not learn to glean the fuel with which to feed the consuming 
fires of this glorious ambition, from the ample storehouses of 
nature in the wisest way? The careful conservation of vital 
force is the imperative lesson of the hour. Greater economy in 
the use and control of our bodies and brains is strictly enjoinfed. 
These houses of clay were not made to run at high pressure all 
the time. Nor will an ample supply of food suffice to repair all 
the waste. There must be stated periods of relaxation, recrea- 
tion and absolute rest. Lost strength and vitalitv can be re- 
gained in no other way. A breath of Nature, uncontaminated 
by the dregs of citv civilization is the unfailing panacea. The 
tlabby muscles and pale cheeks, the feeble respiration and the 
exhausted brain, all these beckon us away to the green hills 
and vallevs. 



'Where the long, rustling curtains of generous trees 
Hide the town with its cares and its folly; 

Where the low, drowsy song of the loitering bees 
Drown out tlie buzz of the trolley." 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. I I 

..■•-•-.^ ^.- Another important aspect of the summer rest is 
NEED OF 

the absolute need of change ; a change of scene, 
CHANGE 

thought and action. This is a dominant impulse 

in every human breast. No matter how salutary or delightful 
the normal environment may be, there is a monotonous routine 
which should be broken in upon. Whether in the line of un- 
tiring labor, dignified leisure, or consuming idleness, the need 
is the same. We must run away from bricks and mortar, the 
noise and dirt of the town and all its pleasures as well for a 
time, and go out among the hills and rocks, the green trees and 
fields, the waving meadows and orchards, the wild flowers and 
the filmy ferns, and bathe in the fresh air and pure sunshine of 
the country, where the brooks and the birds and the leaves 
whisper in loving tryst. To many this is yet a strange gospel, 
but thousands are beginning to realize that this summer vaca- 
tion should bring not only a change of scene but a change of 
habit. They spend hours daily in the cool shadows of forest 
pines where the wind whispers softest and the bees drone 
drowsily among the low, white blossoms of wood fiowers. In 
the great stillness of nature, peace and health go hand in hand, 
soothing relaxed muscles with the subtle touch of new power, 
and in the delicious land of day-dreams, the brain, sung almost 
to sleep by the hushed croonings of the cool breeze among the 
tree-tops, grows young and strong again. In the quiet of the 
grand cathedral of its Maker, even the soul forgets the battles, 
the down-falls, the cuts and scars of life's great contest and be- 
comes something purer, stronger and more worthvof its origin. 
In support of this theory of change of air and scene, may 
we not draw a lesson from the robust health and vigor of the 
nomadic Gypsy tribe, who wander from place to place .^ There 
are also biological laws which may account in some measure 
for the salutary effects of such change. The epoch of man's 
whole existence upon the earth having been so largelv domi- 
nated by his roving habits as a savage hunter with no fixed 
place of abode, is it not reasonable to suppose that such habits, 
prevalent for ages, would be likely to leave a lasting impress on 
every cell and fibre of the human frame. ^ It is therefore not 
improbable that a partial renewal of the conditions to which 
his constitution was originally adapted may contribute to a re- 
covery of a normal state of health. 



THE CATSKIl.L MOUNTAINS. 



13 



where: to ^'^ thousands this is a momentous question 

that comes up for a new solution with each 
GO 

recurring season. When one thinks he has 

reached a linal conclusion at the end of his vacation by decid- 
ing never to go to that place again, the intervening winter is 
very apt to dispel the notion, and he either goes back to the 
same locality or begins to wrestle with the question anew. 
Surely the subject is one of vital importance, and vet how 
common it is to consider only two or three of the secondary 
elements of the problem. A hasty comparison of prices, with 
the scenic and social attractions offered, the methods and cost 
of access and the decision is made. Too often this results in 
absolute failure and dissatisfaction, and the victim returns to 
his home disgusted with his waste of time and monev. not 
only, but really tired out and utterly unfitted for work. The 
monetary aspect of the vacation, essential as it is, should never 
be allowed to overshadow the main object for which rest is 
actually required. 

What manner of change do 1 need most ? This is the great 
question to decide, and it is the easiest of the whole lot. An 
absolute change of air is the inevitable response which comes in 
asthmatic gasps from the exhausted lungs, half clogged by the 
organic atoms of the polluted city atmosphere. What you 
need is air at lirst-hand. For months you have been breathing 
a second-hand, warmed-over air whose identity and history 
you were fully content to leave in obscuritv, sniffing a bit here 
and there, catching a whiff now and then as it floats out to sea 
for purification. Now you must pack your grip and flee to the 
distilleries of the skies, where the mystic breezes fling out their 
banners of invigorating welcome, and Nature sits enthroned to 
dispense her choicest gifts. And this brings us to the consid- 
eration of altitude, the hygienic importance of which, as a 
factor in the summer vacation, is now so universally conceded. 




THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 



THE IMPORTANCE 
OF ALTITUDE. . . . 



For years past we have found that 
vigor and tone were imparted bv a 
sojourn at mountain resorts a few 
thousand feet above the sea. First came the exhihirating effect 
and afterward the most positive and potential invigoration, 
which seemed to renew lost tissues and repair old ones. But 
the exact processes were not so easy to explain scientifically. 
It was discovered years ago that the blood of animals living in 
the higher altitudes absorbed more oxygen than those on the 
lower levels. Next, that his blood was richer in the coloring 
matter (hiiemoglobin), and also that the number of red corpus- 
cles was greatlv augmented. Bearing in mind that the blood 
absorbs oxygen in the lungs and transfers it to the tissues of the 
body by means ofthese red corpuscles, the advantages of this in- 
crease of oxygen and its tiny carriers is at once apparent. The 
microbes of disease, which may have secured lodgement bv 
any grievous unsanitary conditions of life, or by the exhausting 
cares and labors of business, are thus displaced and destroyed 
by this better nutrition of the body, and you are far better for- 
tified to withstand any future assaults of this destructive nature. 
Such is an outline of the latest theory on this subject, which has 
now been accepted by the best medical authorities. And the 
practical lesson of it all is, beyond any question, that the best 
summer resort for the average dweller of the cities and plains 
in every hygienic aspect of the case, is the higher altitudes, the 
mountainous regions of the country. 

Careful investigation has revealed other, and more import- 
ant ingredients in this mountain prescription. The cool air of 
the inland hills is a far different article from that found at the sea 
shore. Instead of the saturated product of moisture and con- 
densation, the air is dry and strong from the rarefving processes 
peculiar to the laboratories of the skies. 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 



17 



xuF rATQKii ^^ ^'^^ observant reader may already have 

surmised from the perusal of the preceed- 
. ing pages, all reference to mountains in this 
little work means specifically the Catskill Mountains, the his- 
toric Catskills ; the most picturesque and healthtlil mountain 
region on the globe, with its marvelous wealth of scenic charms. 
its fame is securely enshrined on the scroll of destiny. Made in 
a dav. the towering crags grow in beautv and grandeiu' as the 

cycles of eter- 
nity roll silent- 
Iv on. Hver 
e 1 o C] u e n t in 
their Creator's 
praise, the y 
reach out a 
beckoning 
hand to ener- 
vated men and 
women t h e 
world over : to 
the discour- 
aged and fal- 
tering worker, 
the unfortun- 
ate idler and 
the successful 
man of busi- 
ness. All alike 
may here stand 
above the tur- 
moils and the 
irksome pleas- 
ures of life and 

compare the boasted achievemenls of men with the mightv 
spectacle of earth and sky, which now tills the soul with awe 
and impresses one anew with his own insignificance. 

■"They come! the mei'ry summer months of beauty, song and flowers. 
They come! the gladsome months that bring- thick leafiness to bowers. 
Up, up my heart! and walk abroad; fling work and care aside; 
Seek silent hills, and rest thyself Avhere crj^stal waters glide; 
Or, underneath the shadow vast of patriarchial tree. 
Seen through its lea\'cs tho elourtlrss sky is rapt tranquility." 



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THE CATSKII I. MOUNTAINS. I9 

WHERE AND WHAT Little need he said perhaps concern- 

ing the location and structure ot this 

most interesting group of mountains. 

For thirty years and more the region has been before the pubHc 
as a summer resort and thousands of admiring visitors have 
journeyed to and fro each year. But there are many other 
thousands who have never vet seen the locaHty, and for these 
this book is mainly written. The modern processes of the 
pictorial art have indeed made some of the scenery familiar the 
world over, and with much pleasing and artistic accuracy. 
This cannot, however, be said so unreservedly of the vast mass 
of descriptive matter which has appeared in the public press 
from time to time. Much of this was mere imaginary drivel, 
misleading and fictitious, betraying the writer's unfamiliarity 
with his subject. In fact, one of our modern encyclopedias 
locates the entire range in Greene county, while it reallv tra- 
verses large parts of Ulster. Delaware and Schoharie counties 
as well, Ulster having perhaps the largest share. Another en- 
cyclopedic writer says the range is drained chiefly by the Cats- 
kill creek, while the fact is. that stream reaches only the eastern 
slope and does not begin to equal in importance the Esopus 
creek, which rises forty miles in the interior, not to mention 
the Schoharie creek, or the branches of the Delaware river. 

These mountains are a spur of the great Appalachian sys- 
tem which extends along the Atlantic coast from Maine to 
Alabama. They cover a superficial area of some 2.400 square 
miles, and their general trend is from southeast to northwest 
or at right angles to every other group in this system. Com- 
ing up the Hudson, they burst into vision about ninety miles 
from the mouth of that river, and from eight to ten miles from 
the western shore at Kingston. Here they rise abruptly from 
the base over ^000 feet in the air for miles along the eastern 
face, there being innumerable peaks, in the interior, three of 
which are over 4,000 feet in height. These peaks vary materi- 
ally in physical structure and plastic form, and are geologically 
unlike ordinary mountain formations. Instead of the usual folds 
or fragments of arches, the rock is composed of piled up strata 
in the original horizontal position. 



THE CATSKIl.L MOUNTAINS. 21 

Just how and at what period of the 
earth's history these massive crags were 
^^'^^ FORMED, formed, is still a question tor the geolo- 
gist of the future. The theory of a high plateau or mass of 
elevations, is still adhered to by the best authorities, including 
Prof. Arnold Guyot, the learned scientist, who made more care- 
ful investigation and personal examination of the Catskills than 
any other man of modern times. He belived that in prehis- 
toric ages the earth contained tenfold more water than now,, 
and therefore in that antediluvian epoch, water was the mighty 
agent in shaping the earth's surface. Glacial action is clearly 
indicated all through the range, some thirteen distinct visita- 
tions of this mighty propelling force, peculiar to the early ages 
of the world, having been traced. Other writers incline to the 
theory of upheaval from volcanic or other causes. But even 
they must resort to the doctrine of erosion as a subsequent or 
final process, in order to account for the various phenomenal 
forms here presented. The vast masses of conglomerate present 
all the conditions of quicksand as it e.xisted just prior to its con- 
version into stone. 

Thus at variance in trend, and other geological features, 
with the parent system, the Catskills must be regarded as anom- 
alous also in plastic formation, being due to erosive forces, 
and not to the ordinary process which has folded and shaped 
the other parts of the svstem. 



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'The wliite clouds are like pictures in a breathin' 

frame o' blue, 
An' the sunbeams are a sliootin' all their silver 

arrows through, 
An' its June-time in the country, an' its June-time 

in the town. 
An' the mockin' birds are singin' and the blossoms 

rainin' down I 
It's June-time in the Catsl^ills. and happy folks 

are we, 
Witli the brook a-dashin'. splashin'. an' tlie winds 

a-blowin' free I 
An' the sun is climbin' high'M-. an' the nights are 

full o' moon, 
An' a fellers soul is dan in' t<> the melodies o' 

J une! " 



THE CATSKILI, MOUNTAINS. 2^ 

TOPOGRAPHICAL ^^''^ ^'^ ^'''^'^ ^'^^^ ^^^ ^''^^1-;^ ^-^ 

the bsopus creek. 1 he northern 

group lies between the Esopus and 

Catskill creeks and extends from southeast to northwest in the 
form of an irregular parallelogram. This is shut in between two 
high border chains, ten or fifteen miles apart. That on the south- 
west is known as the central chain, or backbone of the entire 
group, extending from Overlook Mountain on the east to Mount 
Utsayantha on the west, a distance of over thirty-five miles. 
The other is the northeast border chain. The southeast end is 
closed by the short chain of High Peak: the northwestern by 
the high swell of plateaus which divide the head-waters of the 
Delaware and Susquehanna from those of the Schoharie and the 
Hudson. A striking peculiarity of this northern group is, that 
while its western end seems buried in the general plateaus of 
western New York, the mountains there rising but moderately 
above their base, its eastern end stands isolated on three sides 
by deep and broadly open valleys, projecting in all its height 
as a mighty promontory to within ten miles of the Hudson. 
This presents the imposing scene from that river. The Scho- 
harie creek and its tributaries furnish the entire drainage for 
the interior highlands of the Catskills proper. This drainage 
which sends the waters all the way around to the Mohawk, to 
come back bv the Hudson, after a course of 17s miles, to within 
ten miles of their starting point, is certainly remarkable, and 
shows a very peculiar physical structure. 



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■you fellers from the country — >iiu keep away from town, 
]f you don't want to unsettle thing's and get us upside down; 
For you always leave a memory of tlie meadows and the streams 
An' I straightway get to wishin' and to fishin' in my dreams. 
You fellers from the country — when you strike me at my desk. 

The room begins to blossom an' tlie street looks picturesque; 
And the roarin' of the city, with its engines an' its bells. 
Seems to melt into the music of the mountains and the dells. 
you fellers from the country- — you get so much of life — 

So little of its sorrows, of its tears and of its strife, 

That I want to get off with you and Just riot in your joy 

And wade in your cool bran'h<s, lik<- 1 usrtl to when a boy." 




IN IHl- WOODS NFAR GRAND GORGH. 



THE CATSKII.I. MOUNTAINS. 2^ 

ORiriN OF ^'^'^ precise origin of the name "Catskill," is 

somewiiat obscure. Some writers aver that it 
NAME 

' ■ ■ ■ was derived from the catamounts which in- 
tested the region, and Irving was among those sponsors. But 
there is scant authoritv or reason for this assumption. The 
name is found spelled in numerous ways in the ancient records, 
such as •■Kaatskills." "Kaaterskill," •'Katskill." "Cauterskill." 
"Cautskill," etc. It is believed to have been first applied dur- 
ing the Dutch domination over two centuries ago. And if this 
assumption is correct. Kaatskill or Kaaterskill. would seem to 
be the proper orthographv. The •'kill.' being Dutch for chan- 




nel or creek. •"Kaat," is also Dutch for cat. but the unusual 
abundance of the feline species, either wild or domestic, is not 
well established. The Indians are said to have called the 
mountains "Ontiora. " meaning hills of the sky, where the 
Great Spirit of Manitou dwelt and ruled the elements of earth 
and sky. And there seems no very good reason for ever having 
abandoned that poetic and appropriate title. 



'Summer is here, and the morning' is gay, 
Ijet us be children together to-day, 
Sorrow's a myth, and our trouble.s but seem, 
The past is an echo, the future a dream." 




THE LAKE AT STAMFORD. 



THE CASTKll.L MOUNTAINS. 



27 



PRIMEVAL Concerning the early history of this charming 

mountain region or its people, the records are 
HISTORY 

Strangely silent and incomplete. Even the voice 

of tradition ventures cautiously in the corridors of the remote 
and prehistoric past. But this only serves to invest the locality 
with new enchantment, and interest, and the embers of specu- 
lation are readily fanned into life by such breezes from an un- 
known realm of romance. 




Whetht-r it was Henrv Hudson. Verrazano. Gomez, or 
some earlier navigator, who first sailed up the Hudson river, 
which was then called "Cohohatatia," by the Indians, meaning 
river of the mountains, is now open to question. But it is suf- 
ficient to note here that when Hudson llrst ventured up the 
noble stream in i6oq in his quaint Dutch ship, the attractions 
of the Catskills were such that he was induced to cast anchor 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 29 

and make a short inspection. He was received with marked 
hospitahty by the Iroquois Indians, then in possession of the 
region. Into their rude bark hut, which was stored with corn 
and beans, they took the curious navigator and his small party 
of sailors. Upon the ground floor, mats were spread in their 
honor, and here they partook of food from a large wooden bowl 
or tray. The flesh of a fattened dog, which had been killed for 
the feast, was among the tempting viands prepared for the 
white visitors, who seem to have been in no hurry to return 
to their ship. The record then closes with this quaint, aborigi- 
nal scene and does not re-open until sixty-nine years later ; 
leaving us to assume that the region remained in the peaceful 
possession of the red men during that long period. But this 
was the dawn of the Dutch occupation. On the eighth of Julv, 
1678, the purchase of a large portion of this mountain region 
was effected bv a company of Dutch and English gentlemen. 
The conference was held at the Stadt Huis in Albany, where 
Mahak-Neminaw, the ruling Indian chief, and six leading men 
of his tribe had gathered forthe purpose. Various trinkets and 
trifles of stupendous value in the eyes of the noted red men, 
were given them, and the title, with its wonderful hieroglyph- 
ics, was passed. Soon after that the aboriginal owners began 
to disappear, retreating to other parts of the State. Their suc- 
cessors in the Catskills do not seem to have left many important 
records of their occupancy which can be relied upon. But in 
place of such history we are endowed with a wealth of Indian 
lore and Dutch tradition which have made the region an en- 
chanted shadow-land of le2;end and romance. 



'Queen of aU lovely rivers, lustrous queen 
Of flowing- waters in our sweet new lands, 
Rippling- throug-h sunlight to the ocean sands. 
Within a smiling valley, and bet-ween 
Romantic shores of silvery summer green; 
Memorial of wild days and savage bands, 
Singing- the patient deeds of patriotic hands, 
Crooning- the golden glorious years forseen." 







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SCENIC '^ being the best part of a mile in the air. and 

having views of farms and houses at your feet. 
BEAUTY 

■ with rivers looking like ribbons, and mountains 

seeming to be haystacks of green grass under you, gives any 
satisfaction to a man, 1 can recommend the spot. When I first 
came into the woods to live 1 used to have weak spells, and 1 
felt lonesome : then 1 would go into the Catskills to spend a 
few days on that hill to look at the ways of man." These are 
the immortal words of "Leatherstocking, " that most original 
character in tktion so aptly characterized by Carlyle as "the 
one melodious synopsis of man and nature." Standing half 
way between savage and civilized life, hear him as he continues : 
"The river was in sight for seventy miles under my feet, look- 
ing like a curled shaving, though it was eight long miles to its 
banks. 1 saw the hills in the Hampshire grants, the Highlands 
of the river, and all that God had done, or man can do, as far 
the eye could reach." 

Who can hope to equal the realistic eloquence of this simple 
description ? See the mighty crags with their gigantic ribs of 
rock, protruding here and there from the Oesh of the mountain 
like Titanic fortresses against the assaults of ages ; their massive 
slopes clothed in Cyclopean mantles of living green over which 
the sunshine and shadows of buried centuries have chased each 
other in cosmic glee. These yawning canyons, dark, deep and 
cool, where the shimmering trout streams babble among the 
gnarled roots and mossy boulders, to the echoing refrain of the 
lichen-clad walls of precipitous rock. Listen to the mellow 
cadence of Nature's breath fresh from the verdant throat of the 
mountain. There is naught to disturb the peaceful harmony of 
this Arcadian realm. See up yonder, at the head of the gorge 
in which you stand, that slender scarf of sparkling water, 
wearied at last with its winding career for many a mountain 
mile, or its dreamy life among the stones and roots of quiet 
pools, now leaping madly, beautifully over the jutting rock, 
down, down the precipice hundreds of feet, breaking into a 
sheeny shower of fleecy foam, sending up a crvstal sprav, 
which bedews the surrounding foliage and paints the rainbow 
across the slanting sunbeams. Or, climb to the breezv crest 
that pierces the clouds and bathe in the filmy vapor that tlits up 




IN THF. WOODLAND \Al I.HV. 



THK CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 35 

the mountain side and scuds past vour face on the wings of the 
wind. Wrapped now in mist as in mid-ocean, anon the veil is 
lifted, the sun breaks through, and you stand entranced at the 
marvelous beauty of the checkered valley which slumbers 
beneath your feet. Or. at daybreak, as the sun peers over the 
rim of the eastern hills and irradiates the sleeping landscape 
with amber and gold, painting in gorgeous hues the rolling, 
tumbling masses of cloud far down over the quiet valley. And 
anon as the vapor lifts and scatters before the rays of the 
advancing sun, the scene becomes indescribably beautiful. 
Watch again, as the angry little midday showers gather, break 
and finish their noisy career, far below the placid sunshine of 
the mountain top which surrounds you. Or choose some one 
of the colossal boulders that lie strewn around, as though 
dropped like a pebble from some mighty hand, and watch the 
gathering fury of a storm, which no man need ever attempt to 
portray. And finally, in the evening twilight, when 

"The Western sky has trimmed its skirts witli ruffles all the way, 
And bias stripes of salmon pink and heliotrope and gray." 

as the receding sun floods the earth in tranquil glory and paints 
his transient banners on the easel of Night, you are lost in 
silent admiration. 



"Splendors and blossoms and beauty, 

And a charm that cannot be told. 
For the dajs are exquisite poems 

Bound in the blue and the gold. 
Of the cloudless sky and tlie sunshine, 

And written in measures of light. 
They are full of the magical rhythm 

Which sweeps through the day and the night. 
Oh! the lyrics of dewy moining, 

And the sonnets of golden noon, 
And the love-songs written in silver, 

That flow from the mystical moon. 
Oh! the beautiful star-lit nocturnes, 

We mortals,- liave called the night. 
That are played in deep, minor measures, 
When the world has grown weary of light. 
Oh! the glorious music and rhythm 

Of life — and the world- — and the sky, 
As they blend in a harmony blissful. 

That floats to the Throne on High." 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 3=> 

HOW TO REACH ™' '' '^^ ':^'^'-^'',;' ^'f^'''' ^'" ^'^.^ 
moment, and tew will need any explicit 

THE CATSKILLS. directions. And yet there are uncom- 
fortable, undesirable routes and methods which may easily be 
avoided by a little study of this book, which is largely devoted 
to the details of the best route, the only through car line and 
all-rail connection. 

For some fifty years after its summer charms were first;' 
discovered, the region remained practically inaccessible. 
There was a long and tedious stage-ride from the river, over an 
atrocious road and up the steep mountain-side at a snail's pace, 
which was often attended with some danger, and it took a 
man of vigor and endurance to stand the trip. The steep and 
stony miles, the jaded horses, and the lumbering old stages 
were pretty apt to awaken sympathies and feelings not wholly 
akin to the picturesque sublimity on every side, leaving scant 
time or mood to indulge his love for mountain grandeur. In- 
valids, who would be most benefitted by the change of air and 
scene were unable to make the ascent, the effects of which 
were so unlikely to be palliated or overcome by the scant facili- 
ties for accommodation and comfort then alforded on the 
mountain. But this was the condition of affairs in the Catskills, 
with slight improvements, down to 1870, when the iron-horse 
began to sniff the air of the hills. Here was a charming sum- 
mer resort wholly undeveloped : the old Greene county 
section was. about the only part known at all. The 
wildest and most charming region, lying in the counties of 
Ulster and Delaware, was largely unexplored and completely 
inaccessible except to the sturdy hunters and bark-men. The 
great chain of mountains had never been entered on this side 
where the great popular and easy approach for the entire range 
was destined to be. The giant Slide Mountain crag, which 
had overshadowed every other peak for countless ages, was 
practically unknown, and its superior height quite unsuspected. 
Thus the varied magnificence of this entrancing region which 
has now so greatly enhanced the fame of the Catskills, was yet 
to be revealed. 




THE VALLEY AS YOU SEE IT NEAR CHICHESTER. 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. }-] 

-rue- I II c?-rr-i3 * The constiuction 01 the Ulster 

TME. ULSTtR ot . . . . 

(k Delaware line was begun in 
DELAWARE RAILROAD. ,g^^ Proceeding slowly and 

cautiously for a time, the iron horse did not really get very far 
into the mountains until four years later. Even then the 
project was generally considered wild and ill-advised, with 
certain failure at the end. But the projectors had faith in the 
final result and kept stretching out the rails until they reached 
and crossed the mountains. 

Nature may never have dreamed that man would stretch a 
railroad through this lovely valley, and at times there has been 
some question as to whether she had been fully reconciled to 
the desecration. But the engineers found a natural pass 
here crooked and tortuous though it was, and they 
followed it up in laying out the line of the road, avoid- 
ing any aggressive liberties with the native conditions, 
as far as posible. Many heavy grades were encountered, 
and there was a cantankerous mountain creek, with a whole 
brood of wayward and excitable little tributaries pouring into 
it from every gorge and gulch which had to be dealt with in a 
dignified and earnest manner. These were normally quiet and 
inoffensive, of course; the speckled trout disported lazily in the 
crystal water which glittered in the noonday sun like silver 
threads in the woof of the mountain, and rippled in sweet re- 
frain on its winding, woodland way to the river. But when 
the floods came, these placid and pretty rills swelled into roar- 
ing torrents in a few hours, tumbling into the main creek, 
which in turn, flooded the narrow valley and swept everything 
down before it. Of course, there was nothing about the rail- 
way that would be likely to exempt it from this inevitable rule, 
or evoke any sympathy from these arteries of the mountains. 
So the engineers acted squarely on the defensive and built the 
road on that theory, locating the line with the utmost care and 
building in the firmest manner. The best materials were used 
in every case, and the best methods employed lo secure sta- 
bility, security, safety, efficiency and comfort. The roadbed 
has recently been materially straigthened and leveled, and the 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 



39 



curves perfected by a competent corps of engineers. This was 
made necessary by the increased traffic and greater speed of 
trains, which also called for heavier rails and ties and modern 
steel bridges, all of which have been supplied over the entire 
line. Several new and attractive station buildings have been 
erected, and important additions and improvements to the 
rolling-stock and general equipment, are continually being 
made. The new passenger locomotives are now heavier and 
more powerful than formerly and they are constructed from the 
latest improved designs for speed and efficiency. The new 
coaches which are added each year, are elegant models of com- 
fort and convenience from the best shops in the country. 
Nothing that will conduce to the comfort and pleasure of trav- 
elers has been omitted in the equipment of The Ulster & Dela- 
ware system. It therefore stands to-day second to none in 
security of road-bed. safety of appliances, general efficiency 
and comfort of equipment. The policy of the company and its 
management is to get the best, and operate the line in the best 
possible manner. 

The completion of the road of course proved the great 
factor in the development of the Catskills as a popular summer 
resort. A new impetus was imparted to the moun- 
^. . tain boarding business, and hotels, large and small, 

t^- began to rise here and there in the valleys 

and on the mountain slopes. It opened 
new section of the range, which 
rivalled and even surpassed in 
beautv any other portion, 
while the entire region at 
once became easily ac- 
cessible. Luxurious 
p a r 1 o r a n d d a y 
coaches are now 
attached to the 
trains, and the 
most infirm and 
debilitated may 
^^ thus enjoy t he 
*! benefits of this 
great natural san- 
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THE ONLY ALL-RAJL 
ROUTE ; BEGINNING 
AT KINGSTON POINT, 



that famous old Hudson river land- 
ing of former years, which has 
now been restored and greatly 
improved, this mountain track of 
The Ulster & Delaware line never ends until the entire Catskill 
range has been crossed, and the village of Oneonta, in Otsego 
county, 108 miles from this eastern terminus, is reached. Here 
at the Point, passengers from the elegant and popular Day Line 
steamers. "New York" and "Albany." may board The Ulster 
& Delaware trains for any point in the range, stepping directly 
from their palatial decks to the cars. The transfer of baggage 
is quickly effected, and there is no change of cars between the 
river and the hills. After the delightful sail up the river one is 
ready to enjoy the speedy whirl by train inland and among the 
mountains to the fullest extent. 

The start is made over the river shoal and up the Rondout 
creek for two miles, when 




ONDOUT Sta. is reached. Ron- 
dout was formerly a village, and in 
1614 the Dutch established a settle- 
ment here. It is the river port of the 
city of Kingston, which was incor- 
porated in 1872, It has extensive 
manufacturing interests, and has long 

P^jj rT'''lH^Bi ^'"'joyed the largest river commerce of 
Si* i I ^BBi '*"y point on the Hudson, except Al- 
bany. Several steamboat lines are 
operated here. The fleet and famous 
' •• ••Mary Powell." makes daily trips 

^ . . 'l between this port and New York 

during the summer and early autumn. The large steamers 
of the Central-Hudson Steamboat Co.'s Night Line, and the 
New York Central trains (by way of the Rhinecliff Ferry) all 
connect with The Ulster & Delaware. 

Leaving Rondout Station, the train winds gracefully up the 
grade from tide level and intersects with the West Shore Rail- 
road near the center of the citv. 




LOOKING ALONG THK RAIL ON THE 

MOUNTAIN TOP ON A MOONLIGHT NIGHT. 



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INGSTON (Union Depot). This 
is an important station of the West 
Shore, Wailkill Valley and Ulster & 
.Delaware Railroads, and during the 
season of summer Catskill Mountain 
traffic, this is the great diverging 
point for the mountain region. The 
fast (Catskill Mountam special trains 
on the West Shore line are here trans- 
ferred to The Ulster & Delaware track, 
where powerful engines stand hissing 
and throbbing, impatiently waiting 
for the mountain run. These are among the fastest summer 
trains scheduled upon any road m the country. 

From this station, looking directly north, an imposing view 
of the mountains is presented. The peaks in sight are the 
famous Overlook, on the left, with Plattekill, High Peak, or 
Mount Lincoln, the Kaaterskill and South Mountain crags on 
toward the right. The highest of these is Mount Lincoln. 3,664 
feet, and the next in height is the Overlook, 3, i so feet above 
tide. The large house near the skv is the Overlook Mountain 
House. The next toward the right is Hotel Kaaterskill. and 
the last is the old Catskill Mountain House. 

But there is barely time to inspect this view when your 
train pulls out for the mountains and is whirling rapidly over 
the lovely fringe of fertile lowland in the northern bounds of the 
city. You pass within a few rods of the famous old '"Senate 
House," where New York State was born, which is in sight on 
the left, soon after you pass under the second street bridge. It 
was built in 1676. partially burned by the British in 1777, and 
is now owned and kept by the State, having a large and inter- 
esting collection of ancient relics and curiosities. The Esopus 
Creek is next crossed, and the train plunges boldly up the 
southern slope of the picturesque and beautiful Ulster and Dela- 
ware valley, which affords a charming panorama of mountain 
scenery through its entire length. The ascent here is gradual 
and continuous, all the way to 




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1 .P'EST HURLEY, ten miles from 
k\A/ Kingston Point and S30 feet above 
^f-lP;" the river. This is a small hamlet a 
lew rods to the left, mainly devoted 
^, to the quarrying and shipping of 
w-^r-' blue stone, which is iound in great 
abundance all through this region. 
There are two or three churches, 
two hotels, and several stores and shops. 

Woodstock is a much larger hamlet, at the base of Over- 
look Mountain, tlve miles north, and stages are waiting to 
convey passengers to that region, which is very pretty and 
popular with summer visitors, having a large hotel, numerous 
boarding houses, three line churches, and many stores. The 
Overlook is a very imposing crag as seen from West Hurlev 
station, and those who set out to make the ascent will find a 
fairly good carriage road most of the way. and one of the most 
charming and extended views from the crest to be found in the 
entire range. 

OLIVE BRANCH is the next station on this level 
stretch (Ashton Post Otfice). The aspect is now 
pastoral and peaceful. The wayside marsh is thicklv 
dotted with wild plants and flowers, especiallv iris 
and lilies, which bloom in succession during the summer, pre- 
senting an attractive variety of floral beautv. tempting plant 
lovers from the train at times. The region here is supplied 
with many modest boarding houses where one mav revel in the 
air of the foothills with great informality and at low rates. Temple 
Pond is an aquatic 
attraction, lying at 
the foot of Big 
Toinje Mountain, 
about one hundred 
feet above the sta- 
tion. It covers 
about one hundred 
acres normally and 
affords boating and 
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BROWN'S STATION, three miles beyond, is another 
quiet boarding section with numerous houses for sum- 
mer entertainment, and a few summer cottages now 
creeping in here and there. High Point and the Wit- 
tenberg range are now looming up in the distance ahead. A 
mile-and-a-half south is Winchell's Falls on the Esopus, and 
just below the stream tlows through a picturesque rocky gorge. 
Soon after leaving Brown's the train rounds a graceful 
curve to the right for two miles, and the Esopus creek is again 
encountered, for the first since leaving Kingston. The stream 
here divides above the bridge, forming a pretty little wooded 
island. Hereafter the track and this wayward current of moun- 
tain water maintain companionship for twenty miles and more, 
bending in and out. and crossing and recrossing the waters as 
the topography of the valley demands, though not implicitly 
following its every freak and whim. Between this point and 
Kingston, it winds its weary way over precipitous rocks, 
through wild ravines and alluvial and fertile meadows for many 
a mile far to the south. The train now pulls up at 

RODHEAD^S BRIDGE 

Station. Many are attracted 
here by the surrounding 
landscape, with its diversity 
of broad meadows, tower- 
ing mountain peaks, and 
shimmering trout streams. 
The little hamlet is scattered 
along the wooded banks of 
the creek near the base of 
High Point. Pine Island, 
which here parts the waters of the Esopus, is a favorite spot for 
a hammock and a dream, with the rhythmic swirl and gurgle of 
the rushing waters on either side, and the svmphonic whispers 
of spreading hemlocks overhead. Four gamey streams wend 
their way through forest and field in dilferent directions. One 
of these leaps over the ledge not far distant in a sparkling cas- 
cade known as '• Bridal Veil Falls." A more extended water- 
fall, however, is Bishop Falls, two miles down the Esopus, a 
favorite afternoon ramble with manv. 




THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 



49 




/^HOKAN, originally spelt -'Asho- 
^ ^ kan. " is the next stop after a 

mile run. It is one of the old 
Indian names that have been 
retained in the geographical 
nomenclature of this region. 
The place is divided into two 
about the station is known as West 
Shokan, the older settlement which antedates 
the railroad, being a mile toward the east. It is a pleasant 
hamlet, with churches, schools, stores, and many boarding 
houses where hundreds of city people'pass the summer delight- 
fully and at moderate cost. The famous "High Point" peak, 
3,oq8 feet toward the sky, looms up grandly now on the left, in 
a south-westerly direction. This is the most southerly peak of 
the Catskills, and the view from its summit is very extended. 
The ascent is no longer diftkult, there being a well marked 
road over half the way. Good carriage roads lead out 
from Shokan m different directions to interesting points. 
Among those well worth visiting are the celebrated Peakamoose 
Lake and the ••Gulf." The former is a beautiful strip of moun- 
tain water where the Rondout creek tlows through one of the 
most charming glens in the world. Speaking of this spot, a 
recent writer and artist says : •'Nothing else in the Catskills ap- 
proaches it in its peculiar type. For a mile it is a succession of 
impressive pictures, with cascades and waterfalls innumerable, 
living pictures of living water." 

Looking west from Shokan station a crescent of lofty 
mountain peaks will be seen. That on the right is the •'Wit- 
tenberg," 3,778 feet, the next is Mount Cornell, 3,681 feet high. 
Some two miles beyond this chain is the famous Slide Moun- 
tain, the king of the range. 4.20s feet in the air. In the same 
locality are Peakamoose, 3.87s feet. Table Mountain, 3,86s 
feet high, and several others. It is the wildest and most inter- 
estmg group in the entire range, and it can only be reached by 
way of The Ulster & Delaware Railroad. Leaving Shokan now, 
the train winds up the valley for three miles, re-crossing the 
Esopus at a broad bend, and halting briefly at 
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THE CASTKILL MOUNTAINS. 



51 



BOICEVILLEt a way station with many farm at- 
tractions tor summer boarders. There is here an 
•• Excelsior Mill." with its shredders running dav and 
night. The mountains are now encroaching more and 
more upon the narrow valley. 

COLD BROOK is another way station, a mile beyond, 
if your train happens to stop there. The Esopus rushes 
madly by under a new iron bridge on the right, bor- 
dered by a tangled mass of wild flowering vines which 
send up their fragrance to greet the traveler in the car window 
while he listens to the chattering roar of the stream. Following 
the Esopus now for a mile along the base of Mount Pleasant, 
with Mount Tobias and Mount Tremper in the eastern back- 
ground, across the meadows and orchards which intervene, the 
stream suddenly bends away and out of sight for a time, and 
the train soon afterwards stops at 

OUNT PLEASANT, This is in 

the midst of a most attractive and very 
popular summer boarding region, with 
numerous hotels and resting places 
scattered here and there throughout the 
charming valley. Roads lead away 
among the romantic foot-hills of tower- 
ing mountains to quiet little houses 
nestling in placid nooks among the brooks and bridges which 
dominate the locality. Of these there are some forty which 
receive their guests at this station. 

One is here surrounded by high mountains that rise abruptly 
and aggressively, although the ascents are not difficult. The 
view from Mount Tremper, especially its western spur, is inter- 
esting and the trail is comparatively easv. The Esopus creek 
winds in and out, and lingers lovinglv among the little patches 
of mountain meadow; and visitors are always delighted with 
this bit of the Ulster and Delaware valley. 

But the train now speeds on this northerly course tor about 
three miles, barely finding room between the assertive old 
creek and the wagon road for its track, so aggressive are the 
mountains on either side. 





CRANK \IL\V NHAK I'HOI.NICIA. 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 



53 




,HOENICIA« This is one of the most 
'important stations on the hne. You are 
now twenty-eight miles from the river 
and 7q4 teet above it. with lofty moun- 
^ tain peaks on everv hand. It is the 
entrance of the famous Stony Clove 
Canyon, and the southern terminus 
of the Stony Clove and Kaaterskill 
Branch of the Ulster & Delaware system. You are now well 
into the mountains and the scenery is wild and picturesque. 
It is late in the day when the sun peers over the eastern skyline 
on Mount Tremper, and comparatively early in the afternoon 
when the western shadows begin to envelop the little hamlet. 
Meanwhile vour engine, having taken a fresh drink of mountain 
water, gets the signal and skips off up the valley with a busi- 
ness-like snort, winding now closelv along the left bank of the 
Esopus, which lessens in volume as the region of its source is 
approached. But the little valley grows in wildness and beauty 
with every mile, and the mountains become higher and grander. 
Ever and anon you wonder how the rockv wall ahead is to be 
avoided, but the engine finds the way onward. A mile up the 
track is "Woodland Valley," opening on the let^t. It is about 
nine miles long and reaches to the base of the Wittenberg, 
Mount Cornell and Slide Mountain. Not in all the Catskills is 
there a more picturesque and charming wildwood pass than 
this. Nature has here been largelv and admirably left to herself, 
and here sublime simplicity is truly enchanting. It was for- 
merly known as ""Siivder Hollow." and of course there is a 
pretty stream, with cascades, little rustic bridges and trout, and 
poetry all the wav. Mounts Sheridan. Sherrill and North Dome 
now soar grandlv toward the skvon the right, with other peaks 
of various local names coming into view in succession as the 
train proceeds. You soon reach the prettv Shandaken Vallev 
where the mountains begin to recede in the distant background, 
giving place to the more pastoral features of broader meadows, 
bending orchards and sloping foothills, with little farm build- 
ings here and there. The big Westkill Mountain, ^,qoo feet 
high, at length appears in the distance on the right and the 
valley again grows narrow. 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 



55 




HANDAKEN at an altitude of 
1.068 feet is ^} miles from the 
iHudson. This pretty and most 
appropriate Indian name means 
'•rapid water." Shandaken has 
long been one of the most popular 
summer regions in the Catskills, 
""^^ " and it is no small boast for city 

visitors to speak proudly of having summered here, as many 
hundreds do year after year. The scenery is varied and beau- 
tiful, the streams numerous and gamey, and the air excellent. 
There are two large hotels within a few rods of the station and 
many smaller ones scattered all about. There is room for hun- 
dreds m and about the hamlet itself, and there are stages in 
waiting to convey many others miles away to popular resorts 
in Bushnellville, Westkill, Lexington, Spruceton and other 
tributary regions, through charming canyons and cloves, and 
over fair mountain roads. Up the clove to Bushnellville and on 
a pretty lake in Echo Notch is a lovely six mile ride, with the 
swift-flowing Bushkill stream babbling and tumbling along the 
wayside, and ever and anon disputing with you regarding the 
roadway, which is here treated with scant courtesy by the tow- 
ering old crags. 

This portion of the valley is invested with interest because 
of its designation as the scene of buried 
treasure of great value, which 
once belonged to noted Brit- 
ish military officers. The 
succeeding miles are now 
more crooked than 
ever, and three 
of them bring 
the- train to 
a halt at 




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IG INDIAN, 1,2 12 feet above 

the river. The ascent to this point 

has been very gradual most of the 

way. but now you look ahead and 

realize that the radical climb is 

about to begin. You seem walled 

m by mountain crags on every 

side and you may well wonder 

-- — how the train will manage to reach 

the summit, nearly 700 feet above; 

and take only three miles to do it. The deep valley comes to 

an end a short distance ahead and the rails can no longer evade 

the steep mountain slope. 

While you have been wrestling with these little details of 
further progress, that vou will tlnd so nicely solved bv the con- 
structing engineers of The Ulster & Delaware line a few minutes 
hence, tourists for Slide Mountain and that charming region, 
had been climbing into the stages with their traps and luggage 
for that eleven-mile ride, or less, depending upon the destina- 
tion. This is the station for the Slide and the Big Indian Valley, 
that most entrancing and delightful canyon which cannot be 
extolled too highly nor painted in too glowing colors. Nature 
has here wrought with marvelous skill and design, and there is 
beautv in every line. The entire valley is an ideal place for 
summer cottage life amid the placid charms of wildwood and 
forest. No visitor of the Catskills should fail to ride, or wheel, 
or walk through this lovelv vallev. One of the sources of the 
Esopus sends its crystal water winding through this meadow 
bottom at its own sweet will, regardless of roads and all other 
artillcial structures. In this the "speckled beauties'' disport 
in goodly numbers, as they do even more abundantly in the 
famous Neversink region, which is also reached from this vallev, 
and lies beyond the Slide. 

An extra engine is usually added to the heavier trains here 
for the hills, and while these powerful motors are gathering 
forces for the climb a romantic bit of Indian tradition may be of 
interest. 

"Big Indian" was a stalwart red man of this locality, 
seven feet in heiy^ht. His tribal name was "Winnisook." Like 



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all bad Indians who got the chance, he fell in love with a pretty 
white maiden of the adjacent plains named Gertrude Molyneaux. 
But she finally married Joe Bundy, a rival suitor of her own 
race. The alliance proved unhappy, however, and the young 
wife was tenderly reminded of what might have been had she 
married the gallant and dusky warrior of the woods. This feel- 
ing finally culminated in a transfer of her affections and person 
to him. But the climax of Joe Bundy' s revenge soon came. 
While with a company of marauders on a foray of cattle-stealing 
from the Dutch farmers. Winnisook was seen by the outraged 
husband, who promtly drew his trusty bead and inflicted a 
fatal wound, remarking to his comrades, "1 think the best way 
to civilize the yellow serpent is to let daylight into his black 
heart." The dusky giant was afterward found dead standing 
upright in the hollow of a big pine near the spot. His faithful 
widow, upon learning of the tragedy, hastened to the scene, 
where she fell upon the body in frantic grief, and spent the rest 
of her life near Winnisook's grave. The stump of the old pine 
is said to have been covered by the railway embankment. 

But the train is already curving out from the < ,y 

station, you look skyward and see the Grand Hotel - ^ 

with towers near the summit and you know at 
once by the conclusive snorts and groans 
proceeding from the engines, that you 
are going up-hill, for the grade is 
about 150 feet per mile. The charm- 
ing Pine Hill valley, with its 
stream, its road and an occa- 
sional house far down below, 
make a fascinating pic- 
ture. There are nu- 
merous visitors for 
Pine Hill village, 
w-hich you have just 
passed and admired 
so much down in the 
valley. 




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The place preseius 



INE HILL Station is here perched 
on the steep slope of Belle Ayr 
Mountain. Hundreds take the 
stages which are assembled in great 
array for the short ride down the 
hill for the charming little village, 
one of the most picturesciue in the 
range. ) 

most attractive appearance from the 
train, accounting in some measure for its continued popularity 
with a very large class who have made it their regular summer 
abode for years. Nearly every house has summer visitors, and 
there is a degree of informality about the atmosphere not 
always so prevalent at other resorts, which is satisfactory and 
enjoyable to the average guest there. The northerly source of 
the Fsopus is here, up Birch creek valley, and with that stream 
we must now part company, as the drainage from this section 
of the range will hereafter flow from the summit westward, to 
the Delaware instead of the Hudson river. This is also a favor- 
ite cottage region. 

But the clatter and chatter incident to the greeting of new- 
comers, and the transfer of their baggage, now fades away as 
the brakes are released and the hissing locomotives plunge 
boldly into the final climb. The air-line distance to the summit 
is not over half-a-mile, but there are 22b feet to climb and the 
track curves sharplv around the arcs of a double horseshoe for 
three times that distance. You see the engines laboring 
heavily as they almost double up on the train, and the front 
end of the coach is visibly higher than the rear. But while 
watching these novel features of modern engineering, don't 
forget to look backward down the valley, for the view Irom 
this mountain breastwork is charming indeed. At length you 
will note that the motors are breathing more freely and steadily 
as the Summit is approached. While the whistle sounds, there 
will be time to admire the handsome cottages in Highmount 
■ Park on the right, and perhaps some of the hotels and summer 
homes on the Belle Ayr slope to the left. But you have now 
reached the summit of The Ulster & Delaware track. i,88q feet 
above tide. 



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RAND HOTEL STATION 

is now the stop, and a most im- 
portant summer station it is. The 
second hirgest hotel in the Cats- 
kills, the Grand Hotel, is less 
than half a mile up the hill and 
in plain sight. It stands on a 
commanding terrace of Monka 
Hill Mountain, and on the dividing 
line between Ulster and Delaware 
counties. From it the view of 
mountain and valley is superb, ri- 
valed only by the crest of the 
mountain itself in the rear, to 
which the ascent is short and easy, 
bringing one 2.489 feet in the air 
with a view free from obstruction 
on every side. Toward the south is 
Slide Mountain, barelv overtopping its aspiring neighbors, with 
the lovely vallev. through which you came, in the foreground ; 
toward the west are farms and hamlets of Delaware, and far 
below the shelving rocks on which you stand is the green valley 
of virgin forest ; and toward the north and east are mountains 
piled on mountains. The Belle Ayr slope, here known as 
" Highmount," is dotted here and there with pretty cottages in 
a park of i.soo mountain acres, with an average elevation of 
over 2,000 feet. The region also abounds in interesting drives 
and tinny brooks, which greatly enhance the normal pleasures 
of mountain summer life. 

Gently now the train begins to move down the hill, and 
soon the brakes are firmly set and all steam is shut off for the 
great slide. You see an occasional cottage in the ravine on the 
right and anon a trim and pretty hamlet in the valley, with 
many elaborate and costly cottages surrounded by well kept 
lawns and handsome grounds, some of which have been carved 
out of the mountain side itself, so little room is there in the 
valley basin. The station is 




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LEISCHMANN^S (Griffins Cor- 
ners). Many men of wealth and 
station have beautiful cottages and 
grounds here, especially the well 
known Fleischmann family, which 
has had so large a share in the de- 
velopment of the place. Many of 
these handsome homes are on the 
bluffs, south of the track. 

There is now a change of land- 
scape; the wild and mountainous aspect peculiar to the Ulster 
section giving place to the pastoral and placid features of 
cleared land and agricultural life. You are now entering a 
dairyland, with its thoroughbred cows, its rich milk and gilt 
edged butter, the home of the sugar-maple and the luscious 
products of the sap-bush. The trickling stream on the right is 
the East Branch of the Delaware, which soon gathers volume 
and force as we proceed. The mountain slopes are now more 
gentle and sparsely wooded. Though yet set with stumps and 
stones, with an occasional protrusion of rock, thev yield more 
readilv to cultivation. 




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,^ ARKVILLE is the next station, 
l\ four miles further down the 
valley and 1,372 feet above 
tide, the lowest point reached 
bvthe rails in Delaware coun- 
tv. It is an important station 
"'*■***' because of the several tribu- 
tary regions converging here.) 
Margaretville, one and one-half miles distant on the left, is a 
charming little hamlet at the base of Mount Pakatakan. one 
mile below the confluence of Dry Brook and the East Branch 
and partly covering the ancient site of the Tuscarora Indian 
headquarters. The rural setting is marvelouslv attractive, and 
many artists of note have built summer studios here and in the 
environment of Arkville. There are churches, stores water- 
works, a weekly newspaper, a fair ground and race track and 
several hotels. Stages connect with leading trains at Arkville 
for Andes, twelve miles; Shavertown. fifteen, and Downsville. 
twenty-six miles away. Furlough Lake, the mountain home 
of George J. Gould, is only seven miles distant. This entire 
region has long been a famous trouting section. Drv Brook is 
a favorite stream with fishermen, having ample water to shield 
the wary game. Near Arkville is an artificial cave with strange 
hieroglvphics rudely carved upon its inner walls, which attracts 
many visitors. 

On leaving this station the train curves sharplv toward the 
right at an obtuse angle, abandoning its southwesterlv course 
upon which it lately entered, and pursuing nearly the opposite 
direction for several miles. Arkville being in the vortex of the 
angle. You are now entering a charming glade known as the 
vallev of the East Branch: a fine dairv section, with succulent 
grasses, milch cows, milk, milk cans and milk stations in full 
supply. The little stream loiters lazily and winds in and out 
with wondrous beautv through the level vale, evidentiv on 
grace and pleasure bent, for there seems no other reason for 
avoiding a straight course, unless it was to increase the charms 
of the landscape and annoy the sturdv farmers who till the 
marginal meadows. To some the water mav seem to run the 
wronff wav. but it doesn't. 



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69 



KELLY'S CORNERS is the first stop on this new 
course. It is mainly a milk depot, having a dairy in 
sight across the meadow. Some city boarders are 
entertained at the pleasant farm houses in the vicinity 
and they thrive wondrously upon the rich and pure products of 
the dairy so abundant there. 

HALCO 1 XVILLE is the next wav stop amid these 
quiet surroundings. It has several houses for summer 
entertainment in and about the hamlet, all of which 
hnd guests when the season comes around. A bit of 
a lake will be seen on the right as the train moves onward, 
where sundry aquatic sports are enjoved. There are good roads 
for driving and cycling leading up and down the valley. 




P OXBURYt that quaint and fa- 
\ miliar old town near the source 
*^ of the East Branch, now over 

a hundred years old, is then 
reached. The altitude is 1,49=^ 
feet and the station is one of 
the important stops in the 
Delaware section. Many a 
familv vacation is quietly and delightfully spent in 
and about this little village every summer, finding 
entertainment in the numerous dwellings of the residents. 
The elaborate and imposing granite structure seen at the upper 
end of the village soon after the train leaves the station, is the 
Gould Memorial Church. The grounds and stream intervening 
have been handsomelv treated under the direction of Miss Helen 
Gould, who spends part of her summer at Roxbury, where her 
father was born and spent his early life. 

The mountains are no longer conspicuous by their height 
in _this locality, but seem like hills in comparison to those vou 
have been accustomed to on this route. For three or four miles 
the wayside aspect changes mainly in detail. But then you 
pass Irish Mountain on the right and soon afterward Bald 
Mountain on the left, where the train curves almost at right 
angles into a deep gorge, running now four or five miles in a 
northwesterly direction. There is a return of rugged grandeur 
for a time, especially in the high, shelving rocks that jut out 
almost over the track as vou approach the station of 




THE CATSKIl.l. MOUNTAINS. 7 1 

"IrAND gorge. 1.S63 feet 
above tide. The hamlet itself 
nestles serenelv down in the val- 
lev on the left less than a mile 
from the station, and will be seen 
from the car window soon after 
'?1 the train pulls out. It was for- 
merly known as "Moresville," 
being named for John More, the 
fust white settler, who came 
there in 1786. and who afterward 
l^ecame the tbunder of a numer- 
"" " "^ ous and influential family in that 

region. Stages are here taken for Gilboa. three miles, and 
Prattsville. five miles distant, over good roads and through a 
lovely section. Both places are on the Schoharie creek, which 
here Hows within about three miles of The Ulster & Delaware 
road. They are popular summer regions for which visitors leave 
the train in large numbers. 

Prattsville is a delightful old village with an historic aroma, 
its formation dating back nearly two hundred years. But the 
mediaeval customs of its ancestors have been supplanted by the 
modern features of mountain village life, and there are very 
good reasons for its claim as an ideal, quiet, interior village re- 
sort. The little streets are thickly shaded and well kept, and 
there are many rare natural attractions. Devasego Falls, just 
below the village, is a famous bit of scenery which merits all 
the admiration bestowed upon it. Pratt's Rocks, so named 
from Col. Pratt, the noted tanner, and founder of the place, are 
also near at hand. They are visited by hundreds annually be- 
cause of the artistic carving in bas-relief, of the old Pratt Tan- 
nery, a bust of Col. Pratt, and other figures emblematic of his 
pursuits and possessions. Upon these high, precipitous rocks 
the marks of the antediluvian currents are plainly visible. 

The wayside now grows picturesque with stumps, stump- 
fences, rocks and stones, and the train speeds quickly over the 
six miles intervening between Grand Gorge and 




A PICTURESQUE SPOT 

AND A GOOD TROUT STREAM. 



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I? 



SOUTH GILBOA* Here the summit of the Dehiware 
county track is reached. 1,747 feet above tide, which you 
have approached so gradually through the glade that you 
can scarcely realize it is within about one hundred feet 
of the Pine Hill summit. There are a few quiet boarding places 
in the vicinity and boating facilities upon Mayham's Lake near 
the station. The hamlet is two miles toward the northeast. 
The train now turns into a westerly course, skipping over the 
level three miles at a lively rate, when the whistle sounds and 
you see many passengers preparing to alight, having reached 
the end of their journey. 




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75 







TAMFORD is the station and 
.one of the most charming and 
'popuhir summer vilhiges in all the 
Catskills. tor which there is ample 
reason. No visitor will regret the 
long seventv-five mile ride from 
the Hudson, or seventy-two from 
Kingston, even though he may 
have failed to tliUy admire and ap- 
preciate the wayside scenery. The 
elevation is i,7QO feet, and the 
grand and massive crag of Mount 
Utsayantha rises directly from the 
village streets over i.soo feet 
higher. The place is distinctly modern in all its features, hav- 
ing tullv outgrown every ancient aspect and custom years ago, 
although possessing a history replete with interest. The town 
was settled by a people from Stamford, Conn., hence its name. 
Utsayantha. which might well have been retained, but for the 
patriotic spirit of its New England founders, was a beautiful 
Indian maiden, concerning whom, her white husband and their 
little babe, forest tradition hands down a tragic story. Near 
the village site was also the scene of a desperate battle between 
the patriots, the Tories and the Indians over a century ago. Its 
history as a summer resort, however, does not extend much 
over twenty years. But its growth and development since 
then has been simply marvelous. There are now a score of 
large hotels and smaller houses, and nearly two thousand guests 
may luid accommodations within the village limits. 

While Nature has indeed been e.xceptionally lavish in her 
gifts, the thrift and enterprise of the Stamford residents, so 
clearly visible at every step, have had a large share in the de- 
velopment and success of the place. They seem to have vied 
with each other in their improvements of their individual prop- 
erty, whilst the public affairs of the village have been managed 
with jealous care on progressive lines. The buildings are es- 
pecially attractive in design and careful preservation. The 
streets are bordered with handsome lawns unobstructed by 



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77 



fences, and overarched by rows of majestic maples. There are 
miles of bluestone sidewalks, a fine water and sewer system, 
electric and gas illumination, good telephonic facilities, five 
thriving churches, a Union Free School and Seminary, a Public 
Library, National Bank and two sprightly weekly newspapers. 
The crest of Utsayantha Mountain, 3,36s feet above tide, is easily 
reached by a good carriage road. It has an observatory from 
which twenty thousand square miles of mountain territory, 
including thirty prominent peaks, and portions of four states 
may be seen, with the cities of Albany and Schenectady in the 
distance. The village site, overlooking the broad valley 
entrance where the headwaters of the Delaware are received, is 
charming. The region forms the watershed between three 
river basms. One mile east is Bear Creek, which empties into 




the Schoharie, and within fifteen minutes" walk west, is the 
source of streams which are tributary to the Susquehanna. 
Thus within the radius of a single mile one may drink from the 
headwaters of three great rivers. The roads all about are 
excellent and there is every inducement and much enjoyment 
in driving and cycling along these rippling streams, and through 
the pretty wooded glens. 




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_ :d 






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79 




OBARXt four miles beyond, 
> the next station. It is a 
J pretty little village with a his- 
^' tory antedating the Revolution. 
^ li k ' ^^^''^ *^ ^ ''"^ ^^^^^' ^"*^ water 
^^ T^ t /'' power, which gave it the old 
name of •• Waterville," which 
was afterwards changed at the 
suggestion of Rev. Philander 
^"'*' ^ Chase, the old church rector, 

who became a bishop in Ohio, in later years. There are several 
churches and various hotels and boarding-houses where visitors 
come in increasing numbers each season, delighting to live in 
this smiling dell in the southwestern margin of the Catskills, 
seventy-eight miles from the Hudson, and about 1.637 ^^et 
above it. 

SOUTH KORTRIGHT is at the end of the next four 
miles down the Delaware. It is the center of a rich 
dairy section with a large creamery to which some 
twelve or fifteen hundred cows pay lacteal tribute dailv. 
The town was settled by sturdy Scotch and Irish people, to 
which nations so many of the Delaware farmers are largely in- 
debted for their rugged and honored ancestry. They came in 
at an early period and had their full share of the Indian depre- 
dations so prevalent at that time. The South Kortright Inn 
is one of the pleasing new features of this locality, and is an 
up-to-date and tlrst class place for the entertainment of summer 
visitors. 

BLOOMVILLE IS reached after a spin of five miles, and 
you are now eighty-seven miles from the Hudson river, 
and about eight miles from the village of Delhi, which 
is reached by stage after a most interesting drive 
throiigh this beautiful valley. This is another of the older Del- 
aware towns, which but lately reached by the railway, has not 
yet developed its summer attractions for city visitors. 

The extension of The Ulster & Delaware system bevond 
Bloom ville was completed during the year looo. 



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8i 



KORTRIGHT STATION is the first stop after 
leaving- Bloomville. This is ninety-two miles from 
the Hudson river, and the elevation above tide water 
is 1,868 feet. From the top of this mountain you get 
an extended view of this beautiful dairy land, and of both Del- 
aware and Otsego counties. 

EAST MEREDITH, ninety-nine miles from the Hud- 
son river, and i.^St feet above it. is the next station!. 
This is one of the desirable country towns, where city 
people mav find a c^uiet spot for rest and recreation. 




DAVENPORT CENTER is one hundred and one 
miles from the river and the elevation is 1.222 feet. 
This is another one of those charming country places 
where vou will find the best air. the best water, and 
plenty of pure milk, butter and eggs for which this country is 
noted. There are a few desirable small boarding houses, where 
one mav find comfortable quarters during the vacation term. 

WEST DAVENPORT is now reached and you 
are one hundred and four miles from the Hudson. 
The elevation is 1,178 feet. This is a small hamlet 
pleasantly located, and within four miles of the 
western terminus of the line. There are a few comfortable 
boarding houses located in the \illage. 
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83 




NEONTA, the western termi- 
nus, is one hundred eight 
miles from Kingston Point and 
i.oq4 feet above tide water. 
It is the center of a very wide 
stretch of farming country, sit- 
uated in a broad vallev. The 
•v^__ '•■-"' streets are broad and heavily 

shaded, level and kept in good 
order. It is also one of the most progressive and charming vil- 
lages in the State. Its population is from 8,000 to 10,000. It has 
all modern improvements, including a tlrst-class system of water 
works, an up-to-date electric light plant, a complete system of 
sewers, a trollev road connecting the eastern and western ends of 
the town, and manv handsome and attractive residences. The 
business portion of the town is well equipped with tine business 
houses, stores and markets. It also has a modern and well- 
tltted theatre, first-class hotels, a normal school which has some 
soo students. The place also has two fme clubs, banks, a very 
handsome Y. M. C. A. building, several beautiful churches, one 
of the largest fair grounds in the State, and many other attrac- 
tions. At Oneonta. The Ulster & Delaware connects with the 
Susquehanna Division of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad. 
Also with the Cooperstown Branch of the D. & H. svstem and 
with the trolley line running to Cooperstown and Richtleld 
Springs. 

The variety of scenery through the "Haunts of Rip Van 
Winkle" after a trip along the famous Hudson river, either by 
rail or boat, thence through the Charlotte Valley, makes this 
a charming trip and the favorite route to those popular resorts. 
Cooperstown is a village of handsome residences, pleasant 
homes, and the hand of elegant culture is everywhere to be 
seen. The village has an excellent system of water works, the 
supply being taken from Otsego Lake. The water is as pure 
and wholesome as can be secured in this state. 

It has many charming walks and drives, and is a good 
•center for excursions. The lake supplies good boating and 
fishing. 



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85 



THE STONY CLOVE AND KAATERSKILL 
BRANCH, In order to reach the Greene county 
section of the range, so long and justly famous in song 
and story tor its rare scenic attractions, where thou- 
sands of summer visitors from every clime have revelled and 
recuperated vear after vear. the main line of The Ulster & Dela- 
ware system must be left at Phoenicia, and now visitors for that 
delightful region mav reach it without change of cars. The 
little narrow-gauge track has been replaced with heavv rails of 

steel and 
made into 
Stan d a r d 
gauge in 
conform it v 
with the par- 
ent ^ystem. 
Steel bridges, 
heavier ties, 
p e r fe c t e d 
curves, ele- 
gant new roll- 
ingstock, and 
every facility 
has been pro- 
vided for the 
increase d 
travel through 
t h e fa m o u s 
Stonv (^love. 
This means 
through par- 
lor cars from 
Philadelphia 
and New 

York to Hunter. Tannersville, Haines' Corners, the Laurel 
House, the Kaaterskill Hotel and the Catskill Mountain House. 

This announcement will be hailed with jovby every visitor 
and entertainer in that charming region, which at last will have 
all the modern railwav facilities heretofore enjoyed in other 
parts of the Catskills. 





SUNSET ROCK AND ONE OF THE 

HIGH PEAKS ACROSS THE GORGE. 



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87 




Many pages 
might well be de- 
voted here to the 
entrancing scen- 
ery which unrolls 
like a panorama 
as the train pro- 
ceeds t h r o Li g h 
this wonderful 
valley and moun- 
t a i n canyon, 
known far and 
wide as the Stony 
(^. 1 o V e Notch. 
Though familiar 
with all thegraph- 
ic descriptions 
upon paper and 
canvas, one is sure to be surprised with the charming reality. 
Geologists differ widely as to the probable cause of this mar- 
velous cleavage of the crags as seen in this Notch, or at what 
stage of the world's history this mighty upheaval took place. 
While the transverse strata or rock on either side, closely corres- 
ponding in character and elevation, seem to have been severed 
and forced asunder a few rods by some Cyclopean mipulse and 
then held immovable, we can get no further in our speculative 
dream than that. Nature closes the door at this point upon 
human investigation and courts our admiration only. Surely 
no visitor to the Catskills will care to miss a trip through the 
Stony Clove. 

Leaving Phoenicia the train sweeps over the Esopus and 
around a broad curve to the right, pursuing a northeasterly 
course most of the way. Much of the grade is heavy, reaching 
a maximum of 187 feet per mile near the Notch. The summit 
there is 2,071 feet above tide, and there is a climb of 1.27^ feet 
in ten miles. But the engines pull up the trains at a lively rate, 
and you are charmed amid the marvelous beauties of this pri- 
meval bit of nature. The first station on this branch is 



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89 



CHICHESTER, it was named for the Chichester t'am- 
ilv which came originally from Wales. There are 
extensive manufacturinii- plants and a collection of 
small dwellings down in the valley. Chairs and fine 
cabinet work are^^made there, to which the place is devoted. 
Soon after leaving the station, if at the right season in June, vou 
pass through a perfect tlower garden of mountain laurel, which 
extends for acres upon either side, each shrub a gorgeous mass 
of pink beauty in a setting of dark green leaves, in fact, this 
entire route presents a charming variety of wild flowers, ferns, 

trailing vines and green shrubbery 
which bloom in succession dur- 
ing the summer, filling 
the air with wild- 
wood fragrance. 
Lovers of plants and 
wild llowers may rev- 
el in the woodland 
1 1' e a s Li !• e s which 
abound in this re- 
gion. Among the 
species found are cle- 
matis, ferns in great 
variety, sarracenias, 
honey-suckles, Indian 
pipe, daisies, eupa- 
torium, lilies, phlox, 
and a host of others. 




EsESVILLEt five miles up the vallev. is the next stop, 
aiid a favorite section with modest visitors who prefer 
to avoid the bustle and crowd of a popular resort. 
There are several houses in this picturesque locality 
where solid comfort may be enjoyed, and there is good fishing 
in the surrounding streams. Steeple Mountain and Burnt Knob 
rise abruptly skyward over across the valley, and there are va- 
rious other soaring peaks with craggy crests now coming into 
view, which add rugged grandeur to the scene. Another three 
miles upward and onward brings the train to a halt at 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 



91 



EDGEWOOD, 1.787 feet above tide. There is a rattling 
saw-mill, and a chair-stock factory, with a few scatter- 
ing private boarding-houses. But Nature's setting will 
engage your attention more protltably. Until this 
point, you have been on the eastern slope of the deep valley, 
with the Stony Clove creek and the old wagon road far below, 
and cascades, mills, little churches, schools and cottages at in- 
tervals, where a few acres of almost perpendicular meadows 
have been reclaimed from the relentless grasp of the great crag. 
The Notch itself is now just ahead, and the valley contracts 
suddenly as its throat is approached. The valley ends, or rather 

begins, iust here with a broad 
open pool of water in which the 
picturesque margin of fallen and 
upright dead and other green 
and beautiful spruce trees are 
reflected. There is now a climb 
of 280 feet to reach the summit 
in the Notch, and the grade can 
no longer be evaded or trilled 
with. There is not much over 
a mile in which to make the as- 
cent, and you feel, hear and see 
that it is uphill. But the engine "gets there" all right. You 
hear the whistle and bell which waken the echoes in unbending- 
measure, and next vou feel the brakes released as the train be- 
gins a gradual descent. You are in the Notch, with Hunter 
Mountain, 4.0^8 feet, and the second highest in the range, on 
the left, straight toward the sky, and Plateau Mountain on the 
right, with a narrow strip of skv far above. The track and the 
old wagon road are battling for space at the bottom of the gorge 
for a time; but the rocky and rooty road has the right of way 
by priority of possession, and it must be duly respected. The 
air is chill, and you reach for the overcoat and wraps which you 
have prudently brought with you to the mountains. 

KAATERSKILL JUNCTION is at length an- 
nounced. It is in the woods, with the open valley of 
the Schoharie on the left, and this is the point where 
passengers change for the Hunter branch. Continuing 
this gradual descent on a sharp curve to the left for about two 
miles along that stream, the famous old village of 




THE CATSKILl. MOUNTAINS. 



93 



HUNTER is leached. This is one ol" the most popular 
summer regions in the (^atskills. It is a quaint little 
mountain village, the town being tbrmerlv known as 
•'Greenland." The general elevation is about i,6oo 
I'eet. and there is a wealth of picturesque attractions. Bits of 
ancient architecture are vet to be seen in the mile or more of 
street that stretches along the northerlv side of the Schoharie 
creek; nor is the modern trend of the present centm'v so much 
in evidence here as in some other mountain villages. But there 
are several large and attiactive hotels, two or three churches, 
many stores and shops. ■■Colonel's Chair" peak, q.ibsfeet 
high, a spur of Hunter Mountain, forms the southern sky-line 
immediately across the Schoharie, to which the ascent is easy 
and most interesting, as it is also to the parent crag, in addi- 
tion to all this, there are miles upon miles of excellent roads, 
leading out in everv direction, upon which the wise and good 
people of that town have spent over $20,000 during the past 
years in sensible and permanent repairs, which is bringing 
its reward in increased number of city visitors who delight to 
drive and cycle in this charming locality. With all these 
advantages there is little wonder that so many thousands return 
to old Hunter year after year to spend their summer. Previous 
to the railway it was almost inaccessible however, as were the 
favorite regions of Lexington. Hen- 
sonville. Windh.am and Jewett 
Heights, which are now reached by 
stage from this station. 
But resuming the east- 
ward journey at Kaaters- 
kill Junction, we have 
still eight miles of 
rails to traverse be- 
f o re reaching the 
noTtheastern termi- 
nus of this mountain 
system. A run of 
three lovely miles 
now brings us to ii^. T'SiSii^ .i^v//^<s*?*^-?^i^ 





TYROLESE OUTLOOK, 

TWILIGHT PARK. 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 



93 



TANNERSVILLE, the lirst stop. Col. Hdwards, of 
Northiimpton. Mass.. moved in the town earlv in the 
hist century, and estabhshed an extensive tanning 
plant there ; and it soon became a great tanning cen- 
ter, remaining thus until the hemlock bark was exhausted. This 
fact led to its name. It has long been a verv popular boarding 
section and has recently grown in favor with cottagers. There 
are numerous large hotels with combined facilities for enter- 
taining over two thousand summer guests. Various social 
clubs and other associations have been attracted here since the 




advent of the railway, purchasing large tracts of mountain land 
and converting them into parks and tine roadways, and erecting 
many handsome summer dwellings, tine club-houses, and other 
convenient buildings. Among these may be named the Elka 
Park Association over on Spruce top slope, near the source of 
the Schoharie, seen on the right. Onteora Park across the valley, 
north of the station, and Schoharie Manor, adjoining Elka Park. 
The elevation at the station is 1.863 feet, and the train now 
ascends gradually all the way to the end. 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 97 

HAINES' CORNERS is at the end of the succeeding 
two miles, which are sure to challenge the admira- 
tion, even at this late stage of the journey. Another 
lively station is this, nearly 2,000 feet above the sea. 
You are now at the head of the famous Kaaterskill Clove, of 
which there is but one, and the like of which there is no other. 
For entrancing beauty of situatian it has no equal. The view 
down the great canyon to the Hudson and beyond, is grand and 
beautiful, defying all description of pen or brush, and ther^ is 
rare native charm on every hand. Nothing which man has 
done — and there is much of his work here — has been able to 
despoil the mighty chiseling of nature in this great clove, nor 
even divert the attention for a moment from the sublime and 
transcendant vastness of this scene. Here at the head of the 
canyon the water plunges madly over the precipice lOofeet in 
height, and then descends by a series of cascades and rapids 
1,200 feet more in four miles, to Palenville, on its woodland way 
to the Hudson. Halfway down, it is joined by the Kaaterskill 
stream which tumbles in from the lateral gorge on the left. It 
is not strange, of course, that people love to linger here, as there 
are many good hotels, large and small. Just over the frills, and 
on the massive slope of Mount Lincoln, which here towers 3,654 
feet in the air and forms the great south wall of the clove, sev- 
eral parks have been established. These will be seen most 
effectively soon after the train leaves the station. The first is 
Sunset Park, above the falls, then follow Twilight and Santa 
Cruz Parks with their many attractive cottages, casinos and 
club houses, which together make a very extensive settlement 
here in the woods in picturesque contrast to the unrivalled 
mountain setting. A summer home here, with housekeeping 
cares and fashion at the minimum, and Mrs. Grundv in abey- 
ance, must be. and is, highly enjoyable. 

As the train moves onward through this historic region, 
with the gorge now on the right, you will need to be alert to 
catch even a passing glimpse of the many objects of interest 
that appear in quick succession. Through the trees on the 
right, just before reaching the next station, two miles above, 
will be seen the celebrated Kaaterskill Falls, which "Natty 
Bumpo" called "the best piece of work in the woods." The 
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E'JREL HOUSE STATION, A tew rods down 
to the right stands that famihar and historic old resort at 
the head of this beautitlil gorge into which the silvery 
sheen of sparkling water tumbles hundreds of feet from a 
solid amphitheatre of shelving rocks beneath which, and behind 
the falling foam itself you may walk on the other shelves of rock, 
dry shod, and view the novel scene, which well repavs for the 
labor of the return climb. It is a resort with many hallowed 
associations extending over three-quarters of a centurv. 

The entrancing spot has inspired the pens and brushes 
of authors and artists for a centurv. audits beautv can never 
fade. Sunset rock, less than a mile along the slope of this 
gorge, and at an elevation of 2,11s feet, is a famous outlook 
over the yawning canyon, where Haines' Falls makes a charm- 
ing picture up at the head of the Clove. 

The last mile of the railwav is now quicklv covered through 
the forest, and you alight at 

KAATERSKILL STATION, <^n the margm of a 
beautiful sheet of water known as Kaaterskill Lake, 
which here nestles lovinglv in its mountain basin 
2,141 feet above the sea. Haifa mileawavis the great 
Hotel Kaaterskill. standing on the crest of the crag and sur- 
rounded by a Mountain Park of over 12,000 acres, in which an 
excellent system of drives and walks is carefullv maintained. 
The view of river and vallev from this altitude of over 2,^00 feet 
is unobstructed and charming beyond compare. Prompt and 
speedv connection is made from every train at this station by 
light mountain carriages, and the walk up the hill is short and 
delightful. Here, too. within a short half mile bv a lovely 
road that borders and passes between Kaaterskill and its 
sister lake, known as North Lake, is the famous old (latskil 
Mountain House, on that grand old tablerock that has hung 
therein mid-air, commanding that famous "valley view," the 
praises of which have been sounded around the world all these 
years. This old land mark and pioneer summer mountain 
liotel now opens for its eighty-fourth season. 

" 'Tis here the eastern sunbeams gild 
The hills which rise on either hand: 
Till showers of purple mist are spilled 
In gllt'ring dewdrops o'er the land." 




THE FAMOUS OLD CATSKIl.l. MOUNTAIN HOUSE CAN BE REACHED IN 

THROUGH CARS ONLY VIA THE U. cV D. R. R. TO KAATERSKII L STATION. 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. lOI 



STAGE CONNECTIONS. 



ARKVILLE. — Daily throughout the year: For Margaretville 2 miles, fare 15 
cents ; Daily except Sunday, throughout the year ; Duiiraveii, 6 miles, fare 25 
cents; Andes, 12 miles, fare 75 cents ; Lake Delaware, 20 miles, fare $1.25 ; 
Delhi, 26 miles, fare $1.50. 

Daily, except Sunday, througliout the year : For Arena, 8 miles, fare 50 cents; 
Union Grove, 12 miles, fare 75 cents ; Shavertown, 15 miles, fare $1.00 ; Pepac- 
ton, 19 miles, fare $1.25 ; Downsville, 26 miles, fare $1.50. 

BIG INDIAN.— Daily, except Sunday, throughout the year: For Oliverea, 
3 miles, fare 25 cents : Slide Mountain P. O., 5 miles, fare 50 cents ; 
Winnisook Lodge, 8^ miles, fare 75 cents; Branch, 12 miles, fare $1.00; 
Frost Valley, 15 miles, fare $1.00 : Claryville, 22 miles, fare $1.25. 

BLOOMVILLE. — Daily, except Sunday, throughout the year: For Delhi, 8 
miles, fare 75 cents ; Bovina Centre, 6 miles, fare 50 cents. 
Delhi stage also connects with morning train on Sundays. 

GRAND GORGE. — Daily, except Sunday, throughout the year ; For Prattsville, 
5 miles, fare 50 cents ; Gilboa, 41-^ miles, fare 40 cents. 

HUNTER. — For Lexington, 9 miles, fare $1.00 ; Hensonville, 7 miles, fare 
75 cents ; Windham, 9 miles, fare $1.00 ; Jewett, 9 miles, fare $1 00 ; .Ashland, 
14 miles, fare $1.25. 

SHANDAKEN.— Daily, except Sunday, throughout the year : For Bushnellville, 
4>^ miles, fare 35 cents; Westkill, S},^ miles, fare 75 cents; Lexington, I2>^ 
miles, fare $1.00. 

STAMFORD. — Daily, except Sunday, throughout the year: For Harpersfield 
Centre, 4 miles, fare 25 cents. 

Daily, except Sunday, throughout the year : For South Jefterson, 3 miles, 
fare 25 cents; Jefferson, 7 miles, fare 50 cents ; Summit, Schoharie County, 14 
miles, fare $1.25 ; Richmondville, 18 miles, fare $1.50. 

WEST HURLEY.^ During the summer months only : For Mead's Mountain 
House, 8 miles, fare $1.00. For Overlook Mountain House, 9 miles, fare $1.25. 
Daily, except Sunday, throughout the year : For Woodstock, 5 miles, fare 25 
cents; Bearsville, 7 miles, fare 35 cents; I.ake Hill, 10 miles, fare 50 cents. 




COOPERSTOWN — THE SUSQUEHANNA AFTER LEAVING OTSEGO LAKE. 




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COOPERSTOWN — A VIEW OF COOPER PARK. 



THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 



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AN IDEAL REGION FOR TROUT FISHING. 



The brook trout, that princely member of the finny reiihn, 
tinds'^a rare combination of favoring conditions in the Catskiils. 
The slopes and valleys are profusely threaded with streams of 
the coolest and purest crystal water, in which the speckled 
beauties disport with abounding joy and content. 



A SPECIAL BOOK ON FISHING IS ISSUED BY THE ULSTER & DELA- 
WARE RAILROAD CO., AND WILL BE MAILED FREE TO ANY ADDRESS ON 
RECEIPT OF TWO CENTS POSTAGE BY THE GENERAL PASSENGER 
AGENT 




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ON THE KAATERSKILL CREKK. 



LIST OF STATIONS— ELEVATIONS— DISTANCE TABLE. 



Ulster & Delaware 

Stations on Main Line 

and Branches. 



i Kingston Pt., 
Kingston < Rondout Sta. 

( Kingston, ifep:?^") 

Stony Hollow 

West Hurley 

Olive Branch 

Brown's Station, 

Brodheads Bridge, 

Shokan 

Boiceville 

Cold Brook 

Mount Pleasant 

Phoenicia 

Shandaken 

Big Indian 

Pine Hill 

Grand Hotel Station 

Fleischmanns 

Arkville 

Kelivs Corners 

Halcottville 

Roxbury 

Grand Gorge 

South Gilboa 

Stamford 

Hobart 

South Kortright 

Bloomville 

Kortright Station 

East Meredith 

Davenport Center 

West Davenport 

Oneonta, 

Chichester 

Lanesville 

Edgewood 

Kaaterskill Junction 

Hunter 

Tannersville 

Haines Corners 

Laurel House Station 

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LIST OF ULSTHR & DELAWARH STAITONS SHOWING 
RATES OF FARE FROM lUNCTlON POINTS TO 
ALL POINTS ON MAIN LINE AND BRANCHES. 



From 



( Kingston Point. . . 
Kingston - Rondout Station. . . 

( Kingston ( Union Dep) 

Stony Hollow 

West Hurley 

Olive Branch 

Browns Station 

Brodheads Bridge 

Shokan 

Boiceville 

Cold Brook 

Mt. Pleasant 

Phoenicia 

Shandaken. ... ... 

Big Indian 

Pine Hill 

Grand Hotel Station 

Fleischmanns 

Arkvilie 

Kelleys Corners 

Halcottville 

Roxbury 

Grand Gorge 

South Gilboa 

Stamford 

Hobart 

South Kortright 

Bloomville 

Kortright Station 

East Meredith 

Davenpoit Center 

West Davenport 

Oneonta 



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Edgewood 

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Hunter 

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Connections are made at Junction Points as follows: 

At Kingston Point with Hudson River Dav Line. 

At Rondout Station with N. Y. C & H. R. R. (via Ferry). 
Also with Night Line Steamers and Steamer Mary Powell. 

At Kingston (Union Depot) wlth West Shore and Wallkill Vallev R. R. 
Also via Trolley with N. Y. O. & W. RY. 

At Oneonta (stage transfer) with Susquehanna division and Coopers- 
town Branch of Delaware & Hudson R. R. 

Also (stage transfer) with Trollev line for Cooperstown and Rich- 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 



This book is issued solely for the pur- 
pose of furnishing the public'with reliable 
information regarding the Ulster & Dela- 
ware Railroad, the great Mountain sum- 
mer resort and hotel and boarding house 
accommodations. Also for such other 
purpose as outlined in the Introductory. 

The following pages are Special and 
not intended to convey the idea that 
this book is an advertising medium, as it 
is not. They are allotted to the towns, 
hotels and boarding houses located on or 
near line of this railroad who desire to use 
them at a nominal cost, not as advertis- 
ing, but as special information to the pub- 
lic, and considered of value to those who 
use this pamphlet. 



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THF VILLAGE OF PHOENICIA. 

|p3)H0ENIClA is an up-to-date country village of about 400 
inhabitants; it is known as the Heart of the Catskills, 
for it is delightfully situated at the junction of the main 
line of the Ulster& Delaware Railroad and its Stony Clove Branch, 
and at the confluence of the Esopus and the Stony Clove creeks. 
It was thought one of the nicest spots in the mountains when 
the Catskills began to be patronized as summer resorts. There 
was built the first lar^e summer boarding house in the Southern 




STATE ROAD AND BROOK VIEW, PHOENICIA. 



Catskills, the famous Tremper House, which became one of the 
choicest hotels in the mountains. No prettier place could have 
been selected in the whole range. This village is an ideal sum- 
mer resort for the following reasons: It is the most accessible 
station on the line of the Ulster & Delaware Railroad, as all 
trains stop here, and some, "the flyers," run without stop be- 
tween New York and Phoenicia. A short ride of three hours 
takes vou from or to the citv. The business or office man can 



PHOENICIA— CONTINUED. 



easily come to spend the end-week with his family in the moun- 
tains, leave here Sunday evening and be in New York at a con- 
venient hour that night, or can leave on Monday morning and 
be at his office before noon. Moreover, being centrally located, 
parties residing here for the summer can visit every point of 
interest at small expense by making one day excursions, either 
bv rail east or west on the Ulster & Delaware Railroad, or north 
on the Stonv Clove and Kaaterskill Branch, livery, or auto- 
mobile. 

A splendid State road, just completed at a cost of upward 
one hundred thousand dollars, extending over twenty miles 
east and west of Phoenicia, affords the most pleasant ride that 
can be enjoyed in the mountains, no grade even too steep tor 
bicvcles. It has become the delight of the automobilist, who is 
apt to make up for lost time when he strikes this State road. 

Trout fishing, one of the favorite attractions in the moun- 
tains, can be thoroughly enjoyed at Phoenicia, as the linest trout 
streams of the Catskills are in this section, two of them ripphng 

through the center of 

the village; they are 
kept well stocked 
with the speckled 
beauties. Good hunt- 
ing in the surround- 
ings during the fall 
months, consisting of 
partridge, quail, squir- 
rel, rabbit, black bear, 
deer. etc. 

With all the charm 
and beauty of a moun- 
tain village Phoenicia 
has the best of modern 
requisites: perfect 
train service, the mail 
three times a dav — the 
first brings with your 
correspondence the 
New York morning 
papers, even before 

CATHOLIC CHURCH, PHOENICIA. 




PHOENICIA — CONTINUED 




METHODIST CHUkCIH, PHOENICIA. 



your breakfast — an express of- 
fice, two lines of long distance 
telephone, a telegraph office, a 
first-class drugstore, two physi- 
cians, three general stores, bak- 
ery, livery, a public Acetylene 
plant furnishing an up-to-date 
light to the streets and public as 
well as private places. The 
village is supplied bv the best 
spring water from a covered 
reservoir on the mountain side. 
Macadam streets and over a mile 
of well kept sidewalks are a 
matter f)f pride to the villagers 
as well as of comfort for the 
summer boarders. Three beau- 
tiful and artistic churches: Cath- 
olic, Methodist Episcopal and 
Baptist. A very useful and well kept circulating library is open 
to the public by paying a small fee. Two lodges, the Odd Fel- 
lows and the Knigths of Pythias, hold their weeklv meetings 
here. A large hall 
with line stage 
and good scenerv 
is situated in the 
center of the vil- 
lage. There man v 
first -class travel- 
ing troups enter- 
tain the pleasure 
loving public and 
helpthem to drive 
dull care away. 
There are five first 
class hotels and 
numerous sum- 
m e r boarding 
houses. Prices 




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PHOENICIA— CONTINUED. 

for board range from the moderate at the farm to the higher 
at the hrst-ciass hotel, where the best of everything is demanded 
and served in finest style, thereby providing an ideal resting 
spot in this healthy, fascinating resort, for the millionaire as well 
as the business man of moderate means. 

The climate is temperate and bracing, the evenings delight- 
ful and the nights always cool but never damp. The warmest 
summer days are invariably refreshed bv a northerly breeze 
coming down the Stonv Clove. 

There are many beautiful locations on well shaded plateaus 
and cosy nooks on the outskirts of the village where summer 




SIMPSON'S GROVE, PHOENICIA. 

colonies or Parks could be established, affording beautiful views 
of mountain and valley scenerv. One of the finest pine groves 
at the west end of the village is a favorite place for picnic or 
fetes champctres of near and far. 

Any information concerning this place will be gladly fur- 
nished by the Secretary of the Phoenicia Iwprovenient Associa- 
tion, Phoenicia. N. Y. 



PHOENICIA— CONTINUED. 

£r^ OODLAND VALLEY. A .short mile above Phoenicia 
^^ village the road leading south would attract hardly 
more than passing attention. To this perhaps, 
and the erroneous impression that there is no thoroughfare at 
the other end of it. may be attributed the fact that Wood- 
land Vallev is little known to the public. Moreover, most of 
the mountain land and all of it at the head of the valley is State 
Forest Preserve, and the remainder is very jealously guarded by 
a few private owners. The permanent population is small and 
scattered. 

Yet Woodland Valley is interesting and enterprising; in- 
deed, few communities possess so much of local pride and pub- 
lic spirit as one finds here. Among other things may be noted 
the district school, a handsome little building, and the Neigh- 
borhood House and Union Chapel now being erected, largely 
the result of popular voluntary contributions. 

Woodland Valley is approached through a narrow pass be- 
tween Mt. Garfield and Mt. Romer and makes its way for about 
nine miles to the base of Slide Mountain. It is a narrow valley, 
watered bv a tine trout brook and its tributaries, with several 
interesting mountain peaks within access. 

Mount Garfield affords fine views over Woodland. Phoenicia 
and Shandaken valley from vantage points easilv reached. 
Skirting its base is the road into the Muddy Brook Hollow, a 
wild bit. and a close rival in scenic grandeur to the Panther Kill 
Hollow, a quarter of a mile further on. The Ravine and the 
Amphitheatre in the latter are well worth a visit: a trail leads 
up and over Panther Mountains (^.76o feet) from this vallev. 

Roxmor (three miles from Phoenicia), now the center 
of activity, is a recent creation. Post oftlce. school. Union 
Chapel and Neighborhood House also are here. The Roxmor 
colony occupies the tract next to that of the hotel: a short dis- 
tance further is the studio of Thos. B. Craig. A. N. A. 

To those who do not wish to climb high for a fine sweep- 
ing mountain view might be recommended a visit to the quarrv 
on the side of Mount Pleasant: from here, too, a trail continues 
up and over the mountain summit. This and other trails in 
these parts are the work of the Woodland Trail Club, which 
has its headquarters at Roxmor. 

Just above Brookside Cottage (four milesjfrom Phoenicia) 



PHOFNICIA — CONTINUED. 



an old wood road diverges easterly into the Cross Mountain 
Hollow, with its picturesque brook, ravine and Diana's pool. 
To the south looms up Terrace, a great, tlat, rocky pile forming 
the grand approach to Wittenberg, and over which the trail is 
laid. Wittenberg is 5,802 feet high and the trail is estimated to 
be tive miles from base to summit. There are ledges to make it 
interesting and somewhat strenuous, but it is well worth an 
effort to get there. The view is one of the finest of the Catskill 
Mountains. The hardy climber who would continue along 
mountain tops to Cornell {3,QOb feet) and then to Slide (4,206 
feet), six miles away, will find the Curtis trail of service. 

The head of Woodland Valley is indeed a wilderness. It 
is here that John Burroughs, the naturalist, pitches his tent. 

Here, many years 
ago. came the in- 
spiration for ""The 
Heart of the South- 
ern Catskills"(Riv- 
erby) describing 
Woodland and its 
mountains, brooks 
and birds. Mr. 
Burroughs declares 
'• the valley is as 
attractive as ever," 
possessed of a 
charm that is m- 
describable. 

( )ne may climl>. (m lalher scale, Slide from this side, but 
the easier approach is by way of Winnisook. Slide is the 
highest of all the (Catskill Mountains. The view is similar to 
that from Wittenberg, though the latter has the advantage of a 
less obstructed foreground. 

- Woodland is naturally a quiet, secluded neighborhood; 
there is no transient traffic, no excitement: indeed, it offers 
little to those who prefer gay life. Fishing — and the fishing is 
excellent — tramping, mountain climbing and driving are the 
popular pastimes; lovers of nature, of simplicity are attracted. 
The resorts in Woodland are Roxmor, three miles from 
Phoenicia; Brookside Cottage, four miles, and (>amp Wake 
Robin for bovs. 





WASHINGTON INN. 

SAMUEL PROSKEY, Prop. PHOENICIA, N. Y. 

Accommodates 250. Terms : Apply. 




SIMPSON HOUSE, 

JAY H. SIMPSON, Prop. PHOENICIA, N. Y. 

Accommodates 30. Terms: $7.00 to $10.00 per week. 




THE GLOBE HOTEL, 

J. H. SPENCE, Prop. PHOENICIA. N. Y. 

Accommodates 50. Terms : Apply. 




ROXMOR. 

E. B. MILLER. Prop. WOODLAND, N. Y. 



Accommo- 
dates 75. 




Terms : 

Apply. 





CAMP 
WAKE ROBIN, 

FOR BO^S. 

Apply to : 

E. B. MILLER. 

Woodland, N. Y. 




THE LAFAYETTE. 



MISS ANNIE COGAN. PHOENICIA, N. Y. (Riseley's P. O.) 

Accommodates 40. Terms $7.00 to $9.C0 per week. 




THE JEFFERSON, 

FREDERICK BARDES, Prop. PHOENICIA. N. Y. 

Accommodates 12. Terms: Apply. 



STAMFORD- IN-THE-CATSKILLS. 

Surrounded by a group of mountain peaks at the head of 
the lovely open valley of the Delaware, the situation of Stamford 
is truly unique. The scenery is varied, including the wild and 
picturesque. Here are mountains in all their massiveness and 
grandeur, the valleys with their meadow lands and cultivated 
fields, and herds grazing in the rich pastures on the hillsides. 

The towering summit of Mt. Utsayantha rises abruptly 
from the end of the village, and forms the culminating peak of 
the Catskills westward. A good carriage road leading up the 
mountain side enables the traveller to reach the observatory 
3,36s feet above tide water without discomfort or fatigue. 
Here the visitor can obtain a splendid view of the Adirondacks, 
Green Mountains, Berkshire Hills, and twenty-eight other peaks 
of the Catskills, including Slide Mountain thirty miles distant. 
Thirty thousand square miles can be viewed from its summit. 

In the words of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, spoken on 
the occasion of his second visit to Stamtbrd: "Every one of our 
party is delighted with his trip, while those who have until now 
never been this way are surprised — amazed — at the grandeur 
and glory that has been all around them. Had other eyes than 
our own beheld, or other tongues reported, we would have 
questioned and doubted and charged much to enthusiasm: but 
having seen we know, and knowing we are glad. I have 
made up my mind that Stamford is the most beautiful village in 
all this charming interior of this great brood of moimtains." 




LAKE IN c:HUR(:HILL park, STAMFORD, N. \. 



STAMFORD — ITS LOCATION AND IMPROVEMENTS. 

The village of Stamford is at an elevation of 1.800 feet above 
sea level, on the Ulster and Delaware Railroad. 72 miles from 
Kingston, ^^ miles from Oneonta. It is incorporated, and has 
a population of over 1,000. It has a system of water works, 
sewer system, electric lights, over five miles of flag stone walks, 
fine stores and residences, a national bank, and two weekly 
newspapers, the Stamford Mirror and Stamford Recorder. An 
opera house with a seating capacity of 1,000, an excellent high 
school under the Regents, with a faculty of ten teachers and over 
300 students; five churches, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist,' 
Episcopal, and Catholic; Judson's circulating library of over 
3,000 volumes; local telephone exchange; long distance tele- 
phone; Western Union telegraph; National Express company; 
Board of trade; and an efficient Fire Department. There are 
also good liveries; bowling alleys; base ball, tennis, and golf 
grounds. We have three New York mails dailv during the 
summer season, four daily through trains from and to New 
York, with through parlor cars from New York and Philadelphia, 




BUSINESS BLOCK, STAMFORD, N. Y. 



STAMFORD'S NATURAL ADVANTAGES. 

The healtlifulness of a summer resort is of first considera- 
tion — all other conditions being of secondary importance. 
Herein lies the chief claim of Stamford upon the attention of 
those who contemplate a sojourn in the mountains during the 
heated term. All the prerequisites — pure air, pure water, alti- 
tude and evenly cool temperature, here are found, and these 
paramount attractions have won for Stamford the popularity 
and high rank it has attained. 

A glance at the physical features of this region will confirm 
the truth of the statement that they possess all the essential 
qualities for health and recreation. The village of Stamford is 
located on the western slope of the Catskills, so miles from the 
Hudson, at the headwaters of the Delaware river. This region 
also forms the divide, or height of land which separates the 
Delaware from the Schoharie and Susquehanna basins. The 
advantages of this location are manifold. No salt air from the 
Hudson valley can reach this place, the high crest of the Cats- 
kills preventing its approach: the remoteness from anv large 
body of water is a guarantee of dryness of atmosphere, and the 
prevailing winds being westerly insure equabilitv of climate. 
A well known New York physician who has spent several sum- 
mers in Stamford says "There is absolute freedom from any 
malarial influences. " and all who have ever spent a few weeks 
in this village have quickly perceived that the air has great re- 
cuperative power, owing to the topographical features alreadv 
mentioned. 




MAIN STREET, STAA\FORD, N. 1' 



STAMFORD — ACCESSIBILITY AND ROUTES. 

In considering the advantages of a summer resort its ac- 
cessibility must not be overlooked, this is the determining point 
with many people in the selection of a place for their summer 
outing, the fatigue and discomtbrt of a long railway journey, 
followed perhaps by a still more wearisome stage ride, is a 
serious objection against any resort. Happily with Stamford 
these objections cannot be raised; the facilities for reaching this 
plate are of the best. Through Parlor Car Trains are run from 
Philadelphia and New York via West Shore Railroad, which 
stops at the large cities and towns along the line direct to Stam^- 
ford without change. This, the Rip VanWinkle Flyer, requires 
four and a half hours from New York, arriving at Stamford 
about 4:30 P. M. The N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. trains to Rhine- 
cliff (opp. Kingston), connect with the U. & D. R. R. by ferry. 
The Albany Day Line Steamers from New York making con- 
nections with U. & D. R. R. at Kingston Point afford a pleasant 
route for those wishing a delightful sail up the Hudson by day- 
light. The Rondout and New York night boats connect with 
earlv morning train on the U. & D. R. R. for Stamford. 




SUMAVER HO.UE, STAMFORD, N. Y. 



STAMFORD— THH PEERLESS RESORT. 

Come to Stamford: Breathe deeply of its health-laden 
mountain air, perfumed with balsam and fir. Partake of its 
pure, sparkling spring water. Ascend Mount Utsayantha, from 
whose summit a scene of sublime beauty is spread before the 
eye. Revel, afoot or awheel, in the beautiful mountain paths 
and roads that radiate in every direction — up wooded slopes, 
beside rippling steams and through winding valleys. Enjoy 
its varied amusements and recreations — outdoor and indoor — 
its delightful social atmosphere, and its splendid hotel and 
boarding houses. For a summer outing such as you have never 
enjoyed before — come to Stamford. Address any of the follow- 
ing houses for terms and full information: 



HOUSES. GUESTS. 

Churchill Hall wo 

Rexmere i ^o 

New Grant House loo 

Grey court Inn 75 

Kendall Place 60 

Simpson Terrace ^o 

The Hamilton ^o 

The Madison ^o 

Cold Spring House ^o 

Atchinson House 45 

Westholm 4s 

Mountain View 4s 

The Cornell ^s 

Ingleside 1^ 

Far View House 30 

Sanford Lodge 30 

Maple Rest 2s 



HOUSES. GUESTS. 

Terry Homestead 2S 

Powell Farm 20 

Rosemont 20 

Cedarhurst 20 

Hubbell Manor 20 

Utsayantha Farm House. . 20 

Boyd Cottage 20 

Maple Grove Farm House 20 

Lawrence (Cottage 20 

Oaft Farm House 20 

Eagle's Nest. . 20 

Maple Lane 20 

Hollis Cottage 20 

The Oneida 20 

Hillcrest (Cottage 20 

Greenhurst 20 



The following pages contain cuts of some of the principal 
hotels. 




FAR VIEW HOUSE. 

GEO. H. HAGER, Prop. STAMFORD, N. Y. 

Accommodates 30. Terms : $8.00 to $15.00 per week. 




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CHURCHILL HALL. 

S. E. CHURCHILL, Prop. STAMFORD, N. Y. 

Accommodates 300. Terms : Apply. 



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KENDALL PLACE. 

G. W. KENDALL. Prop. STAMFORD, N. Y. 

Accommodates 70. Terms : Apply. 



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A. B. ATCHINSON, Mgr. STAMFORD, N. Y. 

Accommodates 50. Terms : Apply. 




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THE WESTHOLM. 

MRS. W. R. BECKLEY, STAMFORD. N. Y. 

Accommodates 50. Terms : Apply. 



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STAMFORD, N. Y. 

Accommodates 12. Terms: Apply. 




THE INGLESIDE, 

E. L. JONES, Prop. STAMFORD, N. Y. 

Accommodates 50. Terms : Apply. 




HUBBELL MANOR, 

DR. H. B. HUBBELL, Prop. STAMFORD, N. Y. 

Accommodates 20. Terms : Apply. 




MAPLE REST COTTAGE, 

A. W. PARSONS, Prop. STAMFORD. N. Y. 

Accommodates 20. Terms: Apply. 
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MAPLE LANE HOUSE, 

J. G. JOHNSTON, Prop. STAMFORD, N. Y. 

Accommodates 20. Terms : Apply. 




SIMPSON TERRACE, 

MRS. R. C. SIMPSON, STAMFORD, N. Y. 

Accommodates 70. Terms : Apply. 




SANFORD LODGE, 

R. M. SANFORD, Prop. STAMFORD, N. Y. 

Accommodates 40. Terms : Apply. 




NEW SOUTH KORTRIGHT INN. 

FRANK G. LYON, Manager, SOUTH KORTRIGHT. N. Y. 

Accommodates 30. Terms: Apply. 







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THE KENWOOD HOUSE. 

ELMER E. PELHAM, Prop. HAINES FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates £0. Terms : Apply. 




SUNNYSIDE HOUSE. 

MRS. GEO. R. KNAPP. HAINES' FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 50. Terms: $7.00 to $10.00 per week. 




UPLAND FARM HOUSE, 

C. H. LEGG, Prop. HAINES' FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 60. Terms: $8.00 to $10.00 per week. 

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THE HAINES' FALLS HOUSE. 

M. R. BAYLIES, Mgr. HAINES" FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 100. Terms: Apply. 



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LOXHURST HOUSE. 

C. A. MARTIN. Prop. HAINES' FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 100. Terms; $8.00 to $12.00 per week. 




MOUNTAIN REST HOUSE. 

RACHAEL ANSON. HAINES' FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 40. Terms: $7.00 to $10.00 per week. 
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CENTRAL HOUSE. 

GEO. W. REED, Prop. HAINES' FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 75. Terms: $8.00 to $10.00 per week. 




MAPLEHURST HOUSE. 

SHERIDAN L. KERR, Prop. HAINES' FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 90. Terms : Apply. 




UNIQUE COTTAGE. 



FRANK LASHER, Prop. HAINES' FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 50. Terms: Apply. 




GLEN PARK HOUSE. 

OWEN GLENNON, Prop. HAINfS' FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 100. Terms: Apply. 




GEM OF THE CATSKILLS. 

JAS. L. PATRICK, Prop., HAINES' FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 50. Terms: $8.00 to $10.00 per week. 




HIGH VIEW HOUSE, 

RICHARD F. HAINES, Prop. HAINES FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 50. Terms : Apply. 



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HALLENBECK, Prop. 

Accommodates 50. 



HAINES" FALLS, N. Y, 
Terms : Apply. 




BELLEVUE HOUSE, 

ALFRED H. LEGG. Prop. HAINES' FALLS, N. 

Accommodates 40. Terms: $8.00 to $15.00 per week. 
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HOTEL HALLENBECK, 

R. W. RENNER, Prop. HAINES" FALLS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 75. Terms: Apply. 




MOUNTAIN SIDE COTTAGE. 

OTIS E. VOORHEES. Prop. ASHLAND. N. Y. 

Accommodates 25. Terms: $7.00 per week. 




TWIN MOUNTAIN HOUSE. 

EUGENE M. DIBBELL. Prop. ELKA PARK P. O., TANNERSVILLE, N. Y. 
Accommodates 75. Terms : Apply. 




HOTEL MARTIN. 

W. B. MARTIN. Mgr. TANNERSVILLE, N. Y. 

Accommodates 100. Terms: $2.00 and $2.50 per day. 
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HOTEL WAVERLY. 

G. BYCK & SON. Prop. TANNERSVILLE. N. Y. 

Accommodates 175. Terms: Apply. 




WOODARD HOUSE. 

S. SHINER, Prop. TANNERSVILLE, N. Y. 

Accommodates 75. Terms : Apply. 




CAMPBELL HOUSE. 

N. CAMPBELL, Prop. TANNERSVILLE, N. Y. 

Accommodates 100. Terms: Apply. 




AMERICAN HOUSE, 

C. L. WILTSE, Prop. TANNERSVILLE, N. Y. 

Accommadates 75. Terms: Apply. 




MANSION HOUSE, 

MRS. GEO. CAMPBELL. TANNERSVILLE, N. Y. 

Accommodates 150. Terms: Apply. 




OFFER'S PLEASANT VIEW HOUSE, 

CHARLES OFFER, Prop. TANNERSVILLE, N. Y. 

Accommodates 100. Terms: $ I 5 to $18 per week, 
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THE CORNISH HOUSE, 

J. C. CORNISH, Prop. PINE HILL. N. Y. 

Accommodates 100. Terms: $12.00 to $18.00 per week. 










THE RIP VAN WINKLE HOUSE, 

FREITAG & MAIER, Prop. PINE HILL, N. Y 

Accommodates 175. Terms: Apply. 




THE WATSON. 

F. W. HILL, Prop. PINE HILL, N. Y. 

Accommodates 30. Terms: $8.00 to $12.00 per week. 




WA WANDA INN, 

S. S. BOUTON, Prop. MARGARETVILLE, N. Y. 

Accommodates 80. Terms : Apply. 

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DEVASEGO INN. 

S. D. MASE, Prop. PRATTSVILLE, N. Y. 

Accommodates 60. Terms : Apply. 




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THE GRAHAM HOUSE. 

W. X. GRAHAM, Prop. PRATTSVILLE, N. Y. 

Accommodates 50. Terms: $8.00 to $12.00 per week. 




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PLEASANT HOME COTTAGE. 

ANDREW CARMAN, Prop. PRATTSVILLE, N. Y. 

Accommodates 35. Terms: Apply. 




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GILBOA HOTEL. 

GEO. A. PETERS, Prop. 

Accommodates 80. Terms: Apply. 



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O^BRIEN HOUSE, 

CHAS. O'BRIEN, Prop. GILBOA, N. Y. 

Accommodates 100. Terms: Apply. 




BREEZY HILL HOUSE, 

MILBERT & GREENBAUM, GRIFFIN'S CORNERS, N. Y. 

Accommodates 75. Terms: $12.00 to $15.00 per week. 



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THE O'HARA HOUSE, 

B. O'HARA'S SON, Prop LEXINGTON, N. Y. 

Accommodates 125. Terms: Apply. 




VINING^S FARM HOUSE, 

PHILIP E. VINING, Prop. BEACHES' CORNERS N. Y. 

Accommodates 25. Terms : Apply. 




THE PINES. 




THE PINES. 



W. J. SOPER, Prop. 

Accommodates 100. 



WINDHAM. N. Y. 
3.00 to $12.00 per week. 




LAUREL HOUSE. 



WEISS & INGLESSI, Props. 



HAINES' FALLS P. O., N. Y 

(Laurel House Sta.) 
Accommodates 300. Terms : Apply. 




THE WALDORF. 

H. C. LANGE, Prop. PHOENICIA, N. Y. 

Accommodates 100. Terms $10.00 to $12.00 per week. 




THE GRAND HOTEL. 



THE GRAND HOTEL CO. HIGHMOUNT P. O., N. Y. 

(Grand Hctel Station.) 

Accommodates 450. Terms : Apply. 










CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE. 

CHAS. & GEO. H. BEACH, Mgrs. CATSKILL. N. Y. 

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THERE ARE OVER 1000 HOTELS. FARM HOUSES AND BOARDING 
HOUSES IN THE PRECEDING LIST, WHERE BOTH SIMPLE AND 
ELABORATE ACCOMMODATIONS MAY BE ENJOYED. THIS GREAT 
VARIETY OF HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES MAKES IT POSSIBLE 




TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY IN A MODEST AND INEXPENSIVE WAY, AS 
WELL AS AT THE HIGH PRICED HOTELS WHERE THOSE WHO PREFER IT, 
MAY ENJOY ALL THE LUXURIOUS APPOINTMENTS THEY AFFORD. 

THE ULSTER & DELAWARE TRAIN SERVICE TO THIS POPULAR SEC- 
TION IS NOT EXCELLED BY THE SERVICE TO ANY SUMMER RESORT IN 

THIS COUNTRY. IT 
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CARS AND MOD- 
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STANDARD GAUGE 
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IS ASANITARIUM FOR 
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PARADISE FOR CHIL- 
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